Tuesday, August 26, 2025
28.8 C
Lagos

South African Airways Flies on Bio-kerosene

South African Airways have flown their first bio-kerosene fuelled flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town. The kerosene is made from Solaris tobacco. An excellent result of a project partly financed through the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Transition Facility.

Solaris Project is a collaboration involving Boeing, Sunchem, South African Airways and SkyNRG. SkyNRG cultivates Solaris and launched the project with Transition Facility funding.

This project brings the aviation industry one step closer to adopting green kerosene. Besides bringing innovation to the industry, cultivating this crop also has a huge impact on the farmers growing Solaris.

Solaris tobacco is cultivated in the Limpopo region of South Africa. Each hectare of land represents one full-time job.

The project envisages 250,000 hectares of Solaris tobacco cultivation by 2025. That should create huge new employment prospects and opportunities for farmers who have suffered from the drop in demand from the tobacco industry.

spot_img
spot_img

Hot this week

Japan Designates City of Kisarazu as Hometown for Nigerians

Mrs. Florence Akinyemi Adeseke, Nigeria’s charge d’affaires and Yoshikuni...

Tinubu Lauds Petrobras’ Imminent Return as Nigeria, Brazil Ink MoUs to Boost Economic Ties

President Bola Tinubu on Monday welcomed Petrobras's imminent return...

Businessman, Ajose, Donates Materials to APC for Continuous Voters Registration Exercise

As part of efforts to support the rulling All...

LASAA Reaffirms Commitment to Fairness, Safety, Industry Growth

Prince Fatiu Akiolu MD, LASAA Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency...

Fidelity Bank to Convene Strategic Panel on Export Financing at FNITCC Atlanta 2025

As part of its ongoing commitment to expanding Nigeria’s...

Topics

Global Airlines Financial Monitor: June 2017

Global airline share prices increased, and outperformed the global...

GCEO of NNPCL, Bayo Ojulari, Pledges to Consolidate on Predecessor’s Achievements

R-L: New Group CEO NNPC Limited, Mr. Bayo Ojulari and...

Great Nigeria Insurance Restates Commitment to Gender Equality, Female Inclusion

Cecilia Osipitan Managing Director/CEO Great Nigeria Insurance Plc One of the foremost...

Linkage Assurance Reports N34bn Total Assets, N8.3bn Premium in 2020

Mr. Daniel Braie Managing Director/CEO Linkage Assurance Plc Linkage Assurance Plc has...

Fidelity Bank Wins 2025 DBN Innovation Award for MSME Support

In recognition of its exceptional contributions to innovative financial...

Red Star Announces Special Holiday Season Offer Tagged “Pay-Less Ship More”

Determined to bring joy to shippers across Nigeria as they shop for the holiday season, Red Star Express Plc., the foremost logistics services solution provider in Nigeria is set to roll out its own special holiday offer for Nigerians tagged“pay-less ship more”. Starting from December 01, 2015 to January 15, 2016, this offer will ensure that customers save as much as 50% on each package using our services.

Law Union & Rock Insurance Settles N1.5bn Claims in 2016

Law Union & Rock Insurance Plc paid claims of...

Equities Market Opens H2:2018 in the Red… NSE ASI down 0.9%

Profit taking in market bellwethers dragged the performance of...
spot_img

Related Articles

Popular Categories

spot_imgspot_img