Boskalis Touts First Rotterdam Tugboat Powered by GTL-FT Diesel

摘要

Netherlands-based Royal Boskalis announced December 20 that its “Smit” tugboat division became the first Rotterdam-based vessel operator to run on the Shell gas-toliquids (GTL) Fischer-Tropsch (FT) diesel fuel. The Smit Elbe tugboat, powered by Shell GTL fuel, “produces far fewer nitrogen-oxide, sulfur-dioxide, fine dust particles and black-smoke emissions than regular diesel,” according to Boskalis.