Azane and Ofiniti: digitalisation of ammonia bunkering
By on June 10, 2025
Norwegian ammonia bunker developer partners with digital platform
Click to learn more. Azane and Ofiniti will partner to build a digital delivery service for Azane’s ammonia bunkering facilities in Scandinavia. Source: Ofiniti.
Azane Fuel Solutions and Ofinit will partner to build a digital delivery service for Azane’s planned network of ammonia bunkering facilities across Scandinavia. In partnership with Yara, Azane’s first such facility is under development in Fjord Base, Norway, with safety approvals granted, and a partnership established with North Ammonia to build a local ammonia fuel production facility.
Ofiniti – a DNV spin-out launched in late 2024 – provides an end-to-end digital platform to support all stakeholders in the fuel supply chain: from fuel suppliers and logistics providers to shipowners, charterers, and port authorities. Digitalisation of bunkering services is a key enabler for alternative maritime fuels. Until recently, global bunker services were almost entirely reliant on the exchange of physical notes, with the Port of Singapore bringing in electronic bunker delivery notes as a default from April this year (following a successful trial in late 2023). At our annual conference in Atlanta 2023, Fürstenberg Maritime Advisory made the important point that electronic bunker notes will be necessary to communicate the accurate, traceable, and trustworthy data maritime stakeholders will need to ensure vessels are actually running on zero and near-zero emission alternative fuels (and raised again at the recent Nor-Shipping conference in Oslo).
When it comes to enabling digital workflows in maritime fuel delivery, Ofiniti stands out as a partner that brings deep domain knowledge and a real understanding of operational complexity. Working with their team has given us the confidence that our ammonia bunkering infrastructure will be supported by a digital layer that is both resilient and future-ready, helping us to better serve our customers.
Steinar Kostøl, CEO Azane Fuel Solutions, in Ofiniti’s LinkedIn announcement, 3 June 2025
Azane is doing pioneering work to make ammonia a practical and scalable marine fuel. We are excited to support them with a digital platform that reflects the realities of the industry, where transparency, traceability, and coordination across many actors are key. FuelBoss is not a one-sided tool, but a platform built to serve the entire supply chain.
Martin Christian Wold, VP Business Development at Ofiniti, in his organisation’s LinkedIn announcement, 3 June 2025
Digitalisation and the ability to communicate complex data on the GHG footprint of fuel molecules will be a critical foundation for low-emission ammonia certification. Recently launched certification schemes from TFI and Ammonia Europe use a standardized approach and use of emissions data, and have informed the development of the AEA’s own scheme for low-emission ammonia, which will soon publicly launch its methodology and design principles. The three schemes share many of the same key stakeholders, and will be highly interoperable.