The cruise industry has invested over $23.5 billion in ships with new energy-efficient technologies and cleaner fuels, the world’s largest cruise industry trade association Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) revealed in a new report. As informed, this is a $1.5 billion increase over the 2019 report findings. While cruise ships
Singapore LNG goes solar with Total
Singapore LNG Corporation (SLNG) and Total Solar Distributed Generation (DG) have signed an agreement for solar power to be implemented at the Singapore LNG terminal on Jurong Island. Courtesy of Singapore LNG Under the agreement, Total Solar DG will finance, build and operate a 600 kilowatts peak (kWp) rooftop solar
LIQUIND Marine ticks its LNG bunkering first
German LNG fueling network developer LIQUIND completed its first bunkering operation of a seagoing vessel in the port of Brunsbüttel. Courtesy of LIQUIND Marine LIQUIND Marine, on behalf of the Nordic energy company Gasum, supplied four trucks to DEME’s trailing suction hopper dredger Scheldt River. A total of 72 tons
Clean Energy Fuels Australia signs Mt. Magnet LNG site lease
Perth-based Clean Energy Fuels Australia (CEFA) has secured a long-term site lease for an LNG plant near the town of Mount Magnet. Illustration only (Courtesy of CEFA) The project is currently under assessment by the WA Planning Commission (WAPC) as a ‘significant development’ in the new State Government planning pathway
KR establishes LNG bunkering simulation center
The Korean Register (KR) has established a new LNG fuel and bunkering simulation center (KR LSC). Courtesy of KR The new facility is located at KR’s headquarters in Busan and officially opened on September 15. Additionally, following the opening ceremony, a memorandum of understanding was signed between KR and Transgas
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EPS takes delivery of first CMA CGM-chartered LNG containership
South Korea’s Hyundai Samho has delivered the first of six LNG-powered neo-Panamax containerships being built for Singapore’s Eastern Pacific Shipping. Image: Eastern Pacific Shipping The ship named Tenere goes on charter to CMA CGM such as the other 15,000 TEU vessels scheduled for delivery from Hyundai Samho by 2022. Futhermore,
Croatia’s first FSRU delivered
China’s Huarun Dadong yard has completed the conversion works on Croatia’s first FSRU that will soon depart to its base on the island of Krk in the northern Adriatic Sea. Image: Huarun Dadong Dockyard The vessel named LNG Croatia brings the European country one step closer to joining the growing
SCF takes delivery of Shell-chartered LNG newbuild
Russian shipping major Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has taken delivery of a newly built LNG carrier from the South Korean Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries shipyard. SCF Barents (Courtesy of SCF Group) The vessel named SCF Barents is capable of transporting 174,000 cubic meters of LNG. Following the delivery on September 14,
Celsius to take delivery of Gunvor-chartered LNG carrier
South Korea’s Samsung Heavy will deliver next month the first of four LNG tankers the yard is building for Denmark’s Celsius Shipping. Keel-laying for the fourth vessel (Image: Celsius Shipping) The Copenhagen-based firm chartered the 180,000-cbm Celsius Copenhagen to Clearlake Shipping, a unit of Swiss-based energy trader Gunvor. The charter