LNG Shipping

International classification society RINA has received authorisation from the Danish Maritime Authority to undertake plan approval and surveillance for ships using LNG as fuel.

MOL has signed an agreement to own and charter a new LNG carrier with Tokyo LNG Tanker.

The EU will co-finance a series of studies to develop LNG as a fuel for ships on the Spanish Mediterranean coast.

Speakers will discuss the future of LNG as transport fuel for ships at the Gastech 2014 conference this March.

Alex Field, The Energy Industries Council, UK, looks at the burgeoning demand for LNG in the Asia Pacific region and the changeability of neighbouring LNG markets.

TOTE has celebrated the start of construction of its new Marlin Class, the LNG powered containership.

Wood Mackenzie expects lengthy delays to the Panama Canal expansion to impact the LNG industry.

US company Jensen Maritime has been selected to supply what will be among America’s first LNG bunker barges along the Gulf Coast.

Carlos Guerrero, Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Division, France, explains why ship conversions are fuelling the move to LNG.

The first of four Höegh LNG floating, storage and regas units has today been named ‘Independence’

The Ichthys LNG project has laid the first block of the keel for its FPSO unit at the DSME shipyard in South Korea.

Toetem Ocean has chosen Wärtsilä technology for the largest LNG ship conversion in North America.

The Port of Zeebrugge has carried out its first ‘truck to ship’ bunkering operation of an LNG fuelled tugboat.

Qatargas has successfully completed the first ship-to-ship transfer of LNG between two Q-Flex type ships.

The Swedish shipping company Erik Thun has awarded a contract to Ferus Smit to build a cargo vessel powered by LNG.