LNG Shipping

Titan has performed the gas-up and cool-down of one of the tanks from NYK Line’s LNG tanker ‘Grace Emilia’.

Vitol will deliver the first LNG cargo to the Philippines in mid-April 2023, which will be used to cool down the FSU Ish and commission the first LNG Terminal in Batangas Bay.

Vitol has recently delivered the first LNG cargo into Finland’s new Inkoo terminal.

Samsung Heavy Industries has won an order for two LNG carriers with an Asia-Pacific shipper.

MEYER Group has presented a cruise ship concept that uses LNG as fuel.

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd and Shell North America LNG LLC have announced the successful bunkering of the ZIM SAMMY OFER container vessel with LNG.

Fratelli Cosulich has announced that the christening and launch of the first of its two small scale and bunker vessels took place on 22 March 2023, at the CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering shipyard in China.

Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd has completed the acquisition of the 2013-built LNG carrier, Golar Seal.

Matson Navigation Company will convert the main engine aboard its container ship, ‘Kaimana Hila’, from a MAN B&W S90ME-C10.5 unit to a dual-fuel ME-GI unit capable of running on LNG.

SEA-LNG recognises the importance of continuing to drive global infrastructure build-out to improve availability of LNG bunkering to the rapidly growing LNG-fuelled fleet.

Performance Shipping Inc. has signed a shipbuilding contract with China Shipbuilding Trading Company Ltd and Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company Ltd for the construction of a 114 000 DWT LNG ready LR2 Aframax product/crude oil tanker.

The M/V Seaboard Blue was bunkered at PortMiami using LNG as a fuel on 12 March 2023, marking the first time in PortMiami’s history that a cargo vessel was bunkered there using LNG as a fuel.

ClassNK has issued four approvals in principle to GTT following its latest development projects in alternative fuels.

Shanghai SIPG Energy Service Co., Ltd and Avenir LNG Ltd have successfully delivered bonded LNG bunker to ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd’s first LNG-fuelled containership.

Chevron Shipping Company LLC has entered into an agreement with Sembcorp Marine Repairs & Upgrades Pte. Ltd intending to reduce the carbon intensity of their LNG fleet operations.