The Barcelona-based research group CENIT has announced that it will be working with HINICIO on a World Bank-funded project that will exploring the feasibility of producing, storing, supplying, and exporting zero-carbon bunker fuels at strategic port locations in Colombia.
In a statement posted on LinkedIn today (5 December), CENIT said that it will look at how the shipping industry is ‘poised to become a major demand centre for zero-carbon fuels, particularly green hydrogen-based options like green ammonia and green methanol’. It will also consider how shipping can play a ‘pivotal role in transporting these zero-carbon fuels from emerging production hubs in Latin America to high-demand centres in Europe and East Asia’
CENIT is a subsidiary of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), which is a partnership between the Government of Catalonia and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). CENIT’s previous maritime-related projects in the Americas and Cribbean region have included developing a national maritim