Copersucar and CMA CGM announce the first ship refueling with ethanol in Brazil.

Copersucar, a Brazilian sugar and ethanol trading company, and the French maritime transport and logistics company CMA CGM, will carry out, on July 10th, at the Port of Santos (SP), the first refueling of a container ship with ethanol in Brazil. The chosen vessel was the CMA CGM IRON. In a statement released to the professional press this Wednesday (1st), the companies point out that the operation represents a milestone for the decarbonization of maritime transport, demonstrating the potential of ethanol as a low-carbon intensity fuel, with the capacity to meet the sector's demand on a large scale.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.