You are using an outdated browser For a better experience using this site, please upgrade to a modern web browser. Subscribe Get Daily Email Subscribe --> Contact Us Sign in Home News & Features Compliance Costs Bunker Prices Bunker Intelligence Americas News Latest Features World Americas EMEA Asia/Pacific Home News & Features Americas Maersk Planning First US Container-Vessel Ethanol Bunkering Maersk Planning First US Container-Vessel Ethanol Bunkering by Ship & Bunker News Team Monday July 20, 2026 Tweet Follow @shipandbunker Laura Maersk has undertaken various ethanol bunker reials for Maersk. Image Credit: Maersk Maersk to mark what it says will be the first ethanol bunkering of a container vessel in the USA Operation to feature the 9,000 TEU boxship Tangier Maersk at Mobile , Alabama Two-day showcase event set for September 15 and 16 Maersk is planning to showcase what it says will be the first ethanol bunkering of a container vessel in the USA , at an event in Mobile , Alabama , in September. The vessel lifting the fuel will be the 9,000 TEU capacity  Tangier Maersk , according to a save-the-date invitation seen by Ship & Bunker. The operation would extend Maersk's ethanol activity from its earlier European and feeder trials to a larger deep-sea ship in the US market. The company completed its first sailing on 100% ethanol earlier this year, having moved the feeder Laura Maersk through 10 % and 50 % ethanol-methanol blends before running on neat ethanol, and has since expanded its use to a larger dual-fuel boxship . Ethanol has drawn growing interest as a marine fuel, both as a biofuel in its own right and as a partner to methanol, with the two alcohols able to be blended in any ratio and stored in the same tanks. Marine engine firm  WinGD has described ethanol as a potential "game-changer"  for Shipping's energy transition, citing its lower cost, around $600 /mt in the US against far higher prices for green methanol, and a