April 15, 2021
U.S.-based Crowley is expanding its use of low carbon biofuel by using it to power one of its tugboats operating San Francisco Bay.
Crowley Shipping and Shell Trading (US) Company initiated the use of the fuel on board the Crowley tugboat Veteran, a ship assist and escort tug.
The Veteran, a 6,800-horsepower tug with a bollard pull of 182,000 pounds, received its first bunkering of 24,000 gallons of low carbon biofuel on March 9 in San Francisco, where Crowley has operated tugboats since 1906.
Veteran joins Crowley’s Vision/650-10, a U.S.-flagged, articulated tug-barge (ATB) that has continued to be bunkered with biofuel from Shell Trading since December 2019. The ATB serves the U.S. and Canadian West Coast.
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