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The port said in a statement it hosted another ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation last week following the first such operation<\/a> in early May.<\/p>\n LNG giant Shell and the world’s largest cruise operator Carnival carried out the second LNG bunkering operation in the port on June 15 supplying fuel to the 2019-delivered cruise ship Costa Smeralda<\/a>.<\/p>\n The vessel operated by Carnival\u2019s Costa Cruises is one of the world\u2019s first LNG-powered cruise ships.<\/p>\n Shell supplied the chilled fuel to the cruise ship via Anthony Veder\u2019s converted LNG bunkering vessel Coral Methane.<\/p>\n The French port says this bunkering operation is a part of efforts to position itself as an LNG bunkering hub.<\/p>\n The French port will as of 2021 have a dedicated LNG bunkering vessel <\/a>Total chartered from Japan\u2019s MOL. <\/p>\n This is the second vessel China\u2019s Hudong Zhonghua shipyard is building for the duo.<\/p>\n The first LNG bunkering vessel <\/a>Total chartered from MOL to serve its CMA-CGM supply deal will also call at the Marseille Fos port.<\/p>\n Both of the vessels have a capacity of 18,600 cubic meters with a length of about 135 meters.<\/p>\n The French port is also a part of the Society for Gas as a Marine SGMF’s data shows there are 185 LNG-powered ships in operation worldwide and 213 on order. <\/p>\n The post Port of Marseille Fos looking to become LNG bunkering hub<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" France’s Marseille Fos port is boosting the use of liquefied natural gas as fuel as it aims to position itself as an LNG bunkering hub for the Mediterranean. Image: Port of Marseille Fos The port said in a statement it hosted another ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation last week following the first such operation in early …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1594,7971,3926,523,70,953],"class_list":["post-12076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-bunkering","tag-fos","tag-hub","tag-lng","tag-marseille","tag-port"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/12077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Fuel (SGMF) and says it is fully supporting the Society’s efforts of promoting LNG as fuel and developing standards.<\/p>\n