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CMA CGM said called the operation \u201cthe largest bunkering operation ever undertaken for a containership.\u201d<\/p>\n
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With a 18,600 cubic meter tank, CMA CGM Jacques Saade is being refueled with LNG while port handling operations remain underway. The bunkering operation is being performed by the Gas Agility, the world\u2019s largest LNG bunkering vessel<\/a>. The Gas Agility is operated by the French company Total, which has an agreement<\/a> with CMA CGM to supply 300,000 tons of LNG fuel per year for a period of ten years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Once bunkering is complete, CMA CGM Jacques Saade will continue on her maiden voyage, which began in China after she joined the fleet on September 22.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The CMA CGM Jacques Saade is the first of nine LNG-fueled, 23,000 TEU containerships ordered by CMA CGM in 2017. So far seven of those ships have been delivered by the shipyard. The vessels are operated French Asia Line (FAL 1) connecting Asia with Europe, providing a weekly service comprising 13 calls over 84 days.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CMA CGM said today it now anticipates to have 26 LNG-fuelled containerships<\/a> of various sizes by 2022 in its fleet.\u00a0While not carbon-free, LNG is seen a lower-carbon option that helps the shipping industry meet more stringent sulphur emissions targets and a transitioning fuel that will help the shipping industry meet its carbon-neutral aspirations<\/a> by 2050.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe energy transition is well and truly underway at CMA CGM. As of today, our flagship is powered using Liquefied Natural Gas,\u201d said Rodolphe Saad\u00e9, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group. \u201cBy 2022, our LNG-powered fleet will be 26 strong. Through this initiative we are directly addressing the environmental challenges we are faced with. As well as being reliable, LNG is the best available technology for significantly improving air quality and contributing towards tackling global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CMA CGM said called the operation \u201cthe largest bunkering operation ever undertaken for a containership.\u201d With a 18,600 cubic meter tank, CMA CGM Jacques Saade is being refueled with LNG while port handling operations remain underway. The bunkering operation is being performed by the Gas Agility, the world\u2019s largest LNG bunkering vessel. The Gas Agility …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1594,2482,523,1577,275,2606],"class_list":["post-21295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-bunkering","tag-historic","tag-lng","tag-operation","tag-rotterdam","tag-underway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295","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=21295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/21296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}