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World’s biggest methanol ship in service on China-North Europe route

[ September 4, 2024   //   ]

Maersk has deployed the world’s largest methanol-powered ship, the 16,592TEU Antonia Maersk on the weekly route between the Port of Gothenburg and Asia. Sweden’s main sea gateway now has two methanol-powered container ships making regular calls.

The ship is now in service on the AE5/Albatross route, part of the 2M shipping alliance, and which also calls in Aarhus in Denmark, Rotterdam and Bremerhaven on its voyage from Chinese ports including Shanghai.

Maersk’s area managing director for the Nordics, Birna Ödefors, declared: “With Antonia Maersk, we are taking another important, concrete step in the green transition of shipping and enhancing our Sweden-based customers’ ability to further reduce their transport emissions. Before 2027, we will launch an additional 20 methanol-powered ships, so this is a journey that has just begun.”

Antonia Maersk saves 280 tons of carbon dioxide each day it is in operation compared with a conventionally powered ship.

Earlier this spring, the smaller methanol-powered ship Laura Maersk started calls in Gothenburg on an intra-European shipping route to and from Bremerhaven.

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