LNG

In the absence of game-changing advances in either supply or demand for gas fuel, equipment suppliers have a pivotal role in driving the market forward, writes The Motorship editor Gavin Lipsith.

At Alfa Laval’s testing and training facility in Aalborg, Denmark, the equipment manufacturer and its marine customers are gaining experience with the fuels of the future.

Fred Olsen has carried out the world’s first conversion of high-speed engines for dual-fuel operation, with installations planned on the ‘Bencomo Express’ ferry sailing between Tenerife and Gran Canaria.

ENGIE, Fluxys, Mitsubishi Corporation and NYK have taken delivery of what has been called the world’s first purpose built liquefied natural gas bunkering vessel (LBV) from Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co…

The clear need to standardise LNG bunkering operations for all stakeholders at the international level has finally been recognised in a new ISO standard set up to ensure LNG-fuelled vessels can bunker…

The world’s first conversion of a container feeder ship to dual fuel propulsion will be carried out in May and could be followed by three more ships, according to owner Wessels Reederei.

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) and engineering company Babcock International Group are to develop 7,500m3 gas supply vessel (GSV) for providing LNG to ships and shore-based gas consumers in the Baltic Sea.

MAN Diesel & Turbo’s LNG fuel gas system division is to deliver a fuel gas supply system (FGSS) for a double-ended fo-pax ferry under construction at Sefine Shipyard in Turkey for Italian…

A collaboration between mining companies and shipping stakeholders is to develop a LNG-fuelled capesize bulk carrier for a proposed ‘green corridor’ between Australia and China.