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Peninsula supports shipowners and operators in reducing emissions through the supply of sustainable marine biofuels across key global bunkering locations

Explore the Benefits of Biofuels

A Flexible Path to Lower Carbon Shipping

Explore how biofuels can help reduce emissions today. Explore the opportunities for your fleet.

Drop-in fuel solution

A Fuel Available Today

Decarbonisation for Your Fleet

Delivering regulatory compliance

As a proven drop-in solution, biofuels help customers meet regulatory requirements and sustainability objectives, without disrupting operations and engines can use biofuels efficiently with no modifications.

Biofuels are available at major bunkering locations worldwide and can often be supplied using existing fuel infrastructure. Through Peninsula's global network of over 500 ports, vessel operators can access lower-carbon fuel solutions in multiple locations today.

For fleet operators, biofuels offer a highly scalable decarbonisation solution, enabling adoption across individual vessels, trade routes and entire fleets. Through continued investment in sourcing, blending and supply capabilities, Peninsula helps ensure biofuels remain a practical, accessible and scalable pathway to fleet-wide emissions reduction.

As environmental regulations continue to evolve, biofuels can help vessel operators address carbon reduction requirements and support compliance strategies under frameworks such as FuelEU Maritime and other emission reduction initiatives.

Our multi-fuel approach

As part of our multi-fuel approach to maritime decarbonisation, we provide reliable access to certified biofuel blends that can be used immediately within existing vessel infrastructure, helping customers reduce lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions without significant operational changes.

Biofuels are an established part of the marine energy mix, offering a practical way to reduce emissions without major changes to vessel operations, backed by integrated sourcing, blending, logistics and delivery across key bunkering locations.

  • 450+

    Biofuel Deliveries

  • ISCC

    Certified Supply Chain

  • 100+

    Customers Worldwide

  • ZERO

    Quality Claims

  • 150k+

    Tonnes of CO₂E Saved

Marine Biofuels:

A practical way to reduce emissions

Our biofuel guide showcases how we can support your decarbonisation strategy, reduce emissions and help meet evolving environmental regulations.

Certified

ISCC-certified waste-based biofuel blends with full traceability and documentation throughout the supply chain, ensuring the biofuel supplied by Peninsula meets the highest standards of quality, sustainability and supply chain assurance.

Guidance

Practical expertise on fuel selection, blending and regulatory considerations enabling you to make an informed decision for your journey.

Experience

Proven delivery for over 30 years means we are experienced in navigating changing market conditions, evolving regulations and delivering tailored solutions to requirements of every scale and complexity.

Verified

Integrated end-to-end supply chain control means we manage the procurement, trading, shipping, storage, blending and delivery through our in-house team, providing consistent quality and reliability whether supplied directly or through our approved reselling network.

  • “Biofuels provide one of the most practical and immediately available pathways for shipowners looking to reduce emissions today.”

    As a drop-in fuel solution, they can be integrated into existing operations with minimal disruption, allowing customers to make meaningful progress towards their decarbonisation objectives while maintaining operational flexibility.

    Jonas Bentsen Head of Specialised Products
  • “The question is no longer if biofuels work, but how to deploy them effectively.”

    As regulatory requirements evolve and demand grows, the challenge is increasingly about implementation rather than viability. Peninsula helps customers navigate that complexity through expert sourcing, blending and supply capabilities, ensuring biofuels can be delivered reliably and effectively where they're needed most.

    Nikolas Nikolaidis Head of Biofuels

Do I need biofuels to comply with FuelEU Maritime, the EU ETS and IMO CII?

Biofuels are one of the fastest and lowest-effort ways to meet today’s main maritime regulations with no investment in your vessel. Biofuels blend directly with the conventional fuels currently consumed such as VLSFO, HSFO, LSMGO and immediately lower the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of the energy used on board:

  • FuelEU Maritime sets GHG-intensity limits for the energy used onboard and biofuels help you stay below them.
  • EU ETS: a pure B100 biofuel almost counts as zero-carbon, reducing the allowances you need to surrender.
  • IMO CII: biofuels improve your carbon-intensity rating.

Biofuels are not the only route to compliance, but they are a true “drop-in” one — effective from your very next bunkering.

Will biofuels work with my engine and existing fuel system?

In most cases, yes with no engine modification. Blends up to B30 behave very much like conventional fuel and can be supplied by standard product tankers. Higher blends (B30 up to pure B100) deliver larger savings and may have specific handling considerations. All our blended products are designed to meet ISO 8217:2017/2024 marine fuel standards, and the FAME component meets EN14214.

How much can biofuels reduce my emissions?

It depends on the blend and feedstock, but the savings are significant. A pure B100 can cut GHG emissions by up to ~90% versus conventional fuel. At our main supply locations, typical certified savings are around 85%. We supply only 2nd-generation biofuels made from waste and residues (such as used cooking oil), which qualify under maritime regulations such EU ETS, Fuel EU maritime and IMO Net-Zero Framework. 

What documentation will I receive to prove compliance and sustainability?

Every sustainable fuel we deliver comes with the documentation regulators and auditors expect. Depending on the product, you receive an ISCC EU Proof of Sustainability (PoS) or a Proof of Compliance (PoC), issued within 30 days of delivery. Peninsula is ISCC EU certified, guaranteeing full traceability and fully sustainable, GHG-reducing supply chains, in line with RED II. This is the paperwork that protects you from regulatory penalties and supports your own reporting.

Which biofuels can I get, and at which ports?

We supply 2nd-generation FAME biofuels — mainly UCOME (from used cooking oil), plus POMEME/FWME at selected locations.

Physical LocationsFeedstockBlends available
Gibraltar / Algeciras / MalagaUCOMEB10 to B100
ARA / English ChannelUCOMEB10 to B100
NetherlandsPOMEME / FWME / UCOMEB10 to B100
Barcelona / TarragonaUCOMEup to B24
PanamaUCOMEUp to B30

We also supply biofuel through our global back-to-back trading network, covering more than 500 ports worldwide. Our experienced teams are on hand to support customers with biofuel bunkering enquiries.

How do I order, and is bunkering any different from conventional fuel?

Ordering is straightforward, and bunkering itself takes about the same time as conventional fuel (driven by pumping and receiving rates). We ask for as much notice as possible — typically 5–10 days at ports where we hold biofuel in storage. If you expect steady demand, we can discuss term contracts and secured availability rather than buying ‘on spot’ basis.

How does maritime Carbon Insetting work?

Sustainable biofuels are supplied to vessels operating within the maritime sector, generating verified emissions reductions. Through a Book & Claim methodology based on Mass Balance principles, these emissions reductions can be allocated independently of the physical shipment route.

Peninsula’s approach follows the Smart Freight Centre Guidelines and GLEC Framework, enabling transparent and credible Scope 3 emissions reporting.

Do you offer Carbon Insetting (EACs)?

Yes, EACs (Environmental Attribute Certificates) represent certified emissions reductions generated within the same transport sector, enabling companies to decarbonise logistics today, without waiting for structural changes.

Carbon insetting delivers in sector CO₂e reductions by replacing fossil fuels with sustainable biofuels within the maritime supply chain. These reductions are allocated to your account via Book & Claim methodology, allowing credible Scope 3 emissions reporting.

With Peninsula, you can purchase biofuel for a vessel operating on renewable fuels in key locations close to major trade routes and allocate the resulting Scope 3 CO₂e emissions reductions to your account, helping advance your decarbonisation strategy today.

Peninsula carbon insetting offers a practical and scalable solution.

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