Oldendorff Carriers is taking part in further trials of biofuel bunkers, this time with grain exporters in Australia.
The German owner’s 38,617-dwt Edwine Oldendorff (built 2016) sailed from Albany Grain Terminal in southern Australia on Sunday bound for Vietnam.
Australian grain industry cooperative CBH Group is shipping 30,000 tonnes of sustainably certified malting barley aboard the geared handysize.
The vessel has been bunkered with a BP-supplied biofuel blend for the trial, which is estimated to produce about 15% less greenhouse gas emissions for the journey than conventional fossil fuels.
