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# Container Lines Are Hedging Their Bets on Alternative Fuels
- URL: https://review.iffw.sg/container-lines-are-hedging-their-bets-on-alternative-fuels/
- Published: 2026-07-07T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-13T16:04:56.000Z
- Description: ONE marked the maiden voyage of ONE Solidarity, a methanol- and ammonia-ready container ship, not yet burning either fuel but built for future conversion. It reflects a wider trend of carriers ordering dual-fuel-ready tonnage rather than committing to a single alternative fuel pathway.
- Author: Editor
- Tags: News, Maritime

Ocean Network Express (ONE) has marked the maiden voyage of ONE Solidarity, a methanol- and ammonia-ready container ship, with its first port call at Shekou, China. The vessel is part of ONE's S-series of dual-fuel-ready newbuilds, engineered for future conversion to methanol or ammonia propulsion once those fuels are more widely available, and will operate on ONE's Mediterranean Pacific South 2 service. It follows sister vessel ONE Singapore, deployed earlier in the same series.

### **Ready, Not Running**

It is worth being precise about what "methanol- and ammonia-ready" means here: ONE Solidarity is not burning either fuel today. It is a conventionally-fuelled vessel built with the structural and systems flexibility to be converted later, a hedging strategy container lines are increasingly using to avoid betting a whole fleet on one alternative fuel before a clear winner, if there is one, emerges.

### **Why Build Optionality Rather Than Commit**

Methanol and ammonia sit at different points on the maturity curve: methanol-fuelled vessels are already sailing globally with an established, if still limited, bunkering network, while ammonia propulsion remains earlier stage, with safety and bunkering infrastructure still being worked out. Building a vessel that can flex into either lets a carrier defer that bet until infrastructure and fuel availability are clearer, at some cost in efficiency compared to a vessel purpose-built for a single fuel.

### **The Broader Pattern**

ONE Solidarity is one newbuild in a wider trend: major container lines are increasingly ordering dual-fuel-ready or dual-fuel-capable tonnage rather than committing fleets to a single alternative fuel pathway. That reflects genuine uncertainty across the industry over which fuel, or combination of fuels, will end up dominant for deep-sea shipping, and it pushes some of that uncertainty downstream onto ports and fuel suppliers, who need to build out bunkering capability for multiple fuels in parallel rather than one.

*Source:* [*Ship & Bunker*](https://shipandbunker.com/news/world/827229-one-deploys-methanol-and-ammonia-ready-boxship?ref=review.iffw.sg)*, 2 July 2026.*