Waterfront Shipping this week performed the first barge-to-ship bunkering of methanol fuel at the Port of Rotterdam. The bunkering operation took place at the at the Royal Vopak’s Vopak Terminal Botlek using the bunker barge MTS Evidence, which supplied methanol fuel to Waterfront Shipping’s long-term chartered Takaroa Sun. The operation marked the first time commercial bunker barge was used to refuel a methanol-powered at Europe’s busiest seaport. As a marine fuel, methanol is globally available at close to 90 of the world’s 100 largest ports and meets strict IMO emissions regulations related to sulphur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter.