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China moves fast with green fuel ambitions
27th Apr 2026
HAROPA PORT is set to be part of a green corridor (image: ©Haropa Port/Samuel Salamagnon)
China is moving with unusual institutional weight to position itself at the centre of the global maritime energy transition. A blueprint backed by 10 central government ministries has set Shanghai on course to become a leading green bunkering hub by 2030. It is targeting one million cubic metres of bonded LNG capacity and one million tonnes of methanol and biofuel bunkering, a ‘double-million’ ambition that signals Beijing views this not as a commercial experiment but as strategic infrastructure.
The scale of state coordination is interesting. It is rare for 10 central agencies to jointly back a single city’s initiative, and the involvement of the National Development and Reform Commission alongside the Ministry of Transport suggests that