丹麦航运巨头马士基披露了其首艘绿色甲醇动力集装箱船设计。这艘2100TEU支线船是马士基订购的19艘碳中和船中的首艘，将于今年晚些时候交付。新船将部署在马士基子公司海陆马士基欧洲（Sealand Europe）的航线网络上，在北欧和波的尼亚湾之间的波罗的海航线上运营。马士基公司一直忙于寻找供应商为其甲醇动力船队提供燃料，这些船只每年需要约100万公吨的绿色甲醇燃料。与使用传统燃料的船舶相比，马士基的甲醇动力船队每年能够减少约2万吨的二氧化碳排放。

Danish shipping giant Maersk has unveiled the design for its first green methanol-powered containership; 2,100 TEU capacity feeder ship. The vessel is the first of nineteen carbon neutral ships Maersk has on order that will be powered by green methanol fuel, with delivery planned for later this year. It will be operated by Maersk’s Sealand Europe brand, a subsidiary that Maersk is in the process of integrating into the “Maersk” moniker, on the Baltic shipping route between Northern Europe and the Bay of Bothnia. To power its methanol-fueled fleet, the company has been busy lining up suppliers to source the around 1 million metric tons of green methanol fuel per year that the vessels will require. This will save about 2.3 million metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere annually, compared to conventionally-fueled ships.

feeder adj. 汇入主干道（或河等）的 

美 /ˈfiːdər/ 英 /ˈfiːdə(r)/ 

feeder的词根是feed“供应；供给”。feed加上名词后缀-er表示作为输送物料的机械设备。

feeder ship n. 支线船

Tips：支线船（二程船），一般为小型驳船。国际航运上有干线运输与支线运输之分，两者同属船舶运输网络的一部分。干线船和支线船的区别在于船舶尺寸大小，支线船通常小于干线船，平均容量为300至500个标准箱，服务于较小的内陆港和主要外贸港，负责将货物从较小的港口运送到大型港口进行出口，或进口时将主要港口货物转运至较小港口。