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CMA CGM To Employ LNG-Powered Ships On The Transpacific

1 March 2021

CMA CGM is to deploy six LNG-powered 15,000 teu ships on the transpacific, the largest gas-powered boxships to call in North America to date, reports Splash247.

The future of Bio-LNG

The first of these new vessels will be delivered in October 2021, and all ships will be fully operational by the end of 2022, by which time the French liner will be operating 32 gas-powered ships, predominantly on the Asia-Europe tradelane.

CMA CGM is the carrier with the biggest investments in LNG-powered tonnage to...

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Singapore’s First Ship Dedicated To LNG Bunker Ready

25 February 2021

Singapore’s first ship dedicated to LNG bunker operations is now ready to start deliveries.
The FueLNG Befiina “has now become commercially operational in Singapore and is ready to supply LNG as marine fuel,” shipping company K Line said in a statement on its website on Wednesday, reports Ship & Bunker.

Joint Venture

The ship will be run under a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Maritime and Shell Eastern Petroleum, and K Line is its technical manager. Container line Hapag Lloyd’s new...

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Maersk Expects To Order Its First Carbon-Neutral Ship In 2023

22 January 2021

Logistics giant AP Moller-Maersk, the owner of the largest shipping company in the world, expects to order its first carbon-neutral ship as soon as 2023.

Maersk CEO Soren Skou Comments

The company is likely to order smaller container ships at first while it gets accustomed to the new fuels, CEO Soren Skou said on a Global Optimism podcast released this week.

“Three years from now, we expect to buy the first order … the first series of maybe small container ships that we can operate in a defined...

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[Answer] How Viable Are Gas Powered Ships?

3 November 2020

Britain is on verge of making gas-powered ships and ferries despite the huge cost involved in it. This brings us to the crucial question of why gas-powered ships like LNG ships are so crucial. BBC sought to find out that as it investigated the matter of the government-owned agency CMAL’s keen interest in gas-powered ferries and ships

Today, we are going to explore why gas-powered ships and ferries are so in vogue.

Backdrop of this

Former Ferguson shipyard owner Jim McColl has told Holyrood’s ferry...

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