en.Wedoany.com Reported - Alexander Savery, CEO of Belgian shipowner CMB Technologies, said on the sidelines of the Singapore Maritime Week conference on April 22, 2026, that the company expects to take delivery of 11 ships that can run on ammonia as fuel between the summer of 2026 and March 2027. Savery stated: "The first ammonia-powered ship will be delivered this summer."

According to the company, these ships include 10 Newcastlemax bulk carriers being built at Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding, each with a deadweight tonnage of 210,000 metric tons, as well as one 1,400 TEU container ship being built at China Merchants Industry (Weihai). These dual-fuel vessels can use either ammonia or diesel as fuel.

Savery stated that CMB Technologies has signed a purchase agreement for "green ammonia" produced by Jilin China Energy Hydrogen Energy Company and holds a minority stake in the private enterprise Jiangsu Andefu Energy Technology. Savery said: "The collaboration with Andefu reflects our desire to invest in China's ammonia logistics chain because we need to connect production sites with ship deliveries. We require trucks, railways, storage tanks, and ammonia bunkering barges, and Andefu has all of these."

Savery noted that currently, China is the only place where "green ammonia" is available, but expects India to increase production next year. He said: "When you look at renewable energy power production in China and India, you see costs are rapidly declining. Therefore, we need to invest in 'green ammonia' ships more than ever." Savery also stated that the increased attention to energy security following the Iran war will accelerate the green transition in the long term, and claimed that with the rise in diesel costs, decarbonized products are already cheaper.

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