Both Vox Ariane and Vox Apolonia are running on LNG during the project execution, a more sustainable alternative for Marine Gas Oil (MGO), free of sulfur and particulates. “Switching to this kind of alternative sources of fuel for our fleet will help us to achieve our net-zero emissions targets by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement,” said the company in a statement.
TotalEnergies Marine Fuels’ chartered LNG bunker barge, the Gas Vitality, refueled MSC Cruises’ vessel via a ship-to-ship transfer of 2,500 m3 of LNG in the Port of Marseille Fos, Southern France. MSC World Europa is 333 meters long and the best performing large cruise ship operating in the world in terms of CO2eq emissions per passenger.
Operadora Portuaria Centroamericana (OPC), the Honduran business unit of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) that operates in Puerto Cortés, recently welcomed the inaugural call for Seaboard Blue, the first container ship in the world to be converted from conventional diesel to run on LNG.
Delivered in October 2022 by French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique, MSC World Europa is MSC Cruises’ largest vessel and the first to be powered by LNG, the cleanest marine fuel currently available at scale. It is also the best performing large cruise ship operating in the world in terms of CO2eq emissions per passenger.
The activity was successfully executed on April 8 in the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium. The LNG bunkering vessel, Optimus, operated by Titan, completed the ship-to-ship fuel supply on the Jasmine Leader, a pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) owned by the Japanese shipping company NYK Line.
This confirms the success of the Port’s strategy of bringing the most environmentally friendly vessels to the Catalan capital. The LNG-powered cruise ships belong to the companies Aida, Costa, P&O and MSC. Almost a decade ago, the Port of Barcelona opted for LNG due to its benefits compared to traditional fuels.
The successful bunkering of the ZIM SAMMY OFER container vessel with LNG took place at Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) on March 26. With this milestone, Kingston is now a new LNG bunkering location for Shell, expanding its global LNG network to 16 locations in 11 countries. To date, Shell has already achieved +1,000 safe ship-to-ship bunkering operations.
SEA-LNG recognizes the importance of continuing to drive global infrastructure build-out to improve availability of LNG bunkering to the rapidly growing global LNG-fueled fleet. The recent addition of Énestas to its membership supports this drive. In January 2023, LNG was available at 185 ports worldwide with a further 50 facilities planned by 2025.
The M/V Seaboard Blue became the first cargo vessel to be bunkered at PortMiami using LNG as a fuel. With its Q4000 bunker barge, Shell filled Seaboard Marine’s vessel with LNG prior to its inaugural southbound sailing to Honduras and Guatemala. It was retrofitted in 2017 and was the world’s first container ship converted from conventional diesel propulsion to LNG.
The 175,500-ton Sun Princess is the largest ship built so far in Italy, as well as the first LNG-fueled cruise ship ever built by Fincantieri, and the first dual-fuel vessel powered primarily by LNG to enter Princess’ fleet. It will be delivered in Q1 2024 starting the Sphere class, which includes a sister-ship to be delivered in 2025, and will accommodate 4,300 guests.
