Yara Clean Ammonia and Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) have signed a Collaboration Agreement to jointly facilitate the uptake of clean ammonia as a marine fuel in the Pilbara region in Western Australia.
The two parties will jointly assess the potential ammonia demand and required bunker infrastructure, leveraging off Yara’s existing Pilbara ammonia production facility and its clean ammonia potential in the region, according to Yara on July 28. The agreement will also ensure safe ammonia bunker operations within PPA ports through collaborative safety analysis and the creation of transparent ammonia bunkering guidelines.
The joint assessment is planned to take approximately one year.
Both Yara and PPA believe that a clear understanding of the required bunker infrastructure and safe ammonia bunker guidelines will accelerate the effective uptake of clean ammonia as a fuel, and will be a major step towards making shipping fuel fossil-fuel free.
PPA is the world’s largest bulk export authority, encompassing the ports of Ashburton, Dampier, Port Hedland, and Varanus Island. Yara Clean Ammonia operates the largest global ammonia network with 12 ships, and has access to 18 ammonia terminals and multiple ammonia production and consumption sites globally, through Yara International.