Japanese shipping firm Kokuka Sangyo has taken delivery of its first methanol-capable vessel, which will also serve as a methanol bunker tanker in Japan. The vessel’s inaugural bunkering was completed at Kinoe Port in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture on 24 September. The 1,200-dwt chemical tanker, Kokuryu Maru, was bunkered with mass-balanced bio-methanol during the operation. The …