ABS issues comprehensive guidance for ammonia bunkering

ABS has launched steerage centered on ammonia bunkering, the primary such advisory for the business.

The ABS Ammonia Bunkering: Technical and Operational Advisory considers the elements of bunkering ammonia as a gas, offering the maritime business with a greater understanding of the challenges concerned and the way finest to deal with them.

As a result of its greenhouse fuel emissions discount potential, ammonia is extensively thought-about a number one various gas candidate. Nevertheless, given its toxicity, secure bunkering capabilities, whether or not by truck, ship or land storage terminal, can be important to enabling its adoption by the business.

“ABS has been main the event of ammonia as a marine gas and this advisory is the subsequent step on this course of. We have now constructed up intensive perception into the appliance of ammonia at sea, which we at the moment are sharing with the business. The advisory helps house owners, operators, designers, shipyards, ammonia suppliers together with terminals and port authorities with complete steerage on the most recent considering round ammonia bunkering, which presents a particular set of recent challenges for the business,” mentioned John McDonald, ABS President and COO.

The advisory covers ammonia bunkering design, operations, threat evaluation and dispersion evaluation, security procedures and coaching.

Obtain a duplicate of the ABS Ammonia Bunkering: Technical and Operational Advisory right here. Extra info on ABS providers for ammonia as a marine gas is obtainable right here.