Unibarge clinches methanol bunker license for ‘key’ European ports

Unibarge, a Dutch-Swiss company specializing in inland tanker shipping,has secured a license to deliver methanol bunkering supplies to the Ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, Belgium.

As disclosed, a bunkering operation has already been wrapped up, involving two vessels: Unibarge’s 3,238 dwt bunker barge Chicago, and Singapore-based independent common carrier X-Press Feeders’ 1,170 TEU boxship Eco Umande, which underwent what was claimed to be “the world’s first” methanol dual-fuel engine retrofit for a container vessel in