Customer TOTE and shipbuilder GD Nassco are working with Clean Energy Fuels for Clean Energy to provide some 20 truckloads of fuel for the first LNG bunkering of TOTE’s new Isla Bella, which was launched last month in San Diego as the world’s first container ship built to run on LNG.
STQ – the Société des traversiers du Québec – is making plans for the first-ever LNG bunkering in Canada, as its new F.A. Gauthier ferry is to be fueled for the first time in mid-May. The Gaz Metro utility is to supply the LNG by truck from its facility in Montreal.
Belgium’s DEME has ordered additional dual fuel dredging vessels. The firm has chosen Wärtsilä 34DF dual fuel engines to power the larger of the two, and is deciding between Wärtsilä and ABC/Anglo Belgian Corp for the smaller.
Vermont’s NG Advantage reports a pact with International Paper to supply natural gas to a mill in Ticonderoga, N.Y. NG Advantage, a unit of Clean Energy Fuels, said that when the operation commences this month, it will be ‘the highest volume use of trucked CNG to-date in the U.S.’
Structurally integrated membrane storage of liquefied natural gas, an innovative LNG re-cooling system designed to optimize the use of boiloff generated in the tanks, and a bunkering arm known a Reach4 are all to be used as GTT and its partners finalize the design of America’s first LNG bunker barge.
GE Marine’s LM6000 aeroderivative marine gas turbine has received Lloyd’s Register’s Design Appraisal Document to NVR Marine Naval Vessel Rules. The natural gas-capable M6000PC is a 42-megawatt machine, while the companion M6000PG has an output of 52 megawatts.
Rolls-Royce is celebrating the successful voyage from China to Norway – some 13,000 nautical miles – of the dedicated-LNG Kvitbjørn short-sea cargo vessel for Stavanger-based Nor Lines. Skangass is named as the LNG fuel provider as Kvitbjørn enters commercial service.
Linde and its Swedish engineering subsidiary Cryo AB report a contract from Finland’s Meyer Turku Shipyard to build a LNG fuel gas system for the next-generation high-speed ferry, for Tallink in Estonia. The system is to include two 300-cubic-meter (79,250-gallon), Type C vacuum-insulated horizontal tanks.
TOTE, Inc. and shipbuilder GD Nassco celebrated the launch and christening of Isla Bella, the world’s first liquefied natural gas-fueled container ship and the largest dry cargo ship of any kind powered by LNG, in San Diego on April 18.
TOTE’s Sea Star Line and Applied Cryo Technologies have an agreement for 25 IMO container units to supply liquefied natural gas to Sea Star’s new LNG-diesel dual fuel container ships that will connect Jacksonville, Fla. and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The first of the two ships was launched in San Diego, after being christened Isla Bella.
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