Stevedores at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal unloaded the first shipment of brand new cargo containers for use on TOTE’s new Marlin Class ships, the world’s first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)-powered container ships.
Chevron is currently undertaking the largest shipbuilding and fleet modernization program in recent corporate history.
Rem Eir is the world’s largest LNG powered offshore supply vessel, built by Kleven Verft in Norway. Eir is the fourth PSV delivered from Kleven this year to enter into a Statoil chart.
Since the LNG carrier Methane Princess delivered the world’s first commercial liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to the UK’s Canvey Island regasification terminal on 12 October 1964, momentum has continued to build. Fifty years later, the sector has mushroomed from this single trade between Algeria and the UK to over 400 trade routes involving 45 countries.
Late last month, NASSCO engineers placed the world’s first dual-fuel slow speed engine into the World’s First Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) powered containership. The ME-GI engine represents the next generation of technology that will open the door to a cleaner and safer shipping industry.
It seems to have taken a very long time coming, but the public is at last being alerted to why their shipping is likely to cost more in the future. Six months from the coming into force of the EU Sulphur Directive, letters and articles have appeared in national newspapers pointing out that in the absence of any derogation from this directive, which is due to bite in the new year, the costs of operating ships in the European Emission Control Area will rise substantially.
Is liquefied natural gas (LNG) the future of marine fuel – or just a future marine fuel? That is the billion-dollar question. Cleaner, safer, more affordable and easier to obtain – as the variety and interest in new marine fuels grows, shipowners and operators are more likely to opt for the prosaic than the exotic