Hapag-Lloyd has won a world-first tender from a group of cargo owners willing to pay for near-zero fuel use, linked to cargoes being shipped between Singapore and Rotterdam.

Amazon and over a dozen more cargo owners have signed a first-of-a-kind commercial tender with the German line for the transportation of containers using the attributes of clean fuels.

The cargo owners are members of the Zero-Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), which describes its goal as accelerating commercial deployment of zero-emission shipping by aggregating its demand.