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GREEN SHIPPING curve, and the effcacy of adapting a landside technology to capable vessels calling (or hoping to call) at certain ports?

the maritime environment. For owners choosing to build LNG LNG fueling makes sense where trade routes are fxed and fueled vessels, the most immediate question centers around known well in advance. Not surprisingly, the frst steps have availability of the fuel itself. It is here that the conundrum of been taken in environmentally hyper-conscious regions. While ‘chicken and egg’ suggests that LNG fuel must be available as many ports are studying LNG fueling, its actual availability is a pre-condition for LNG propelled vessels to enter a particular limited. The World Ports Climate Initiative of the Internation- trade lane. Or, instead, does the fuel supply respond to LNG al Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) notes that LNG

When it comes to LNG bunkering, fnancial complexity matches logistical complexity. JAX LNG is a newly formed company owned by Pivotal LNG (a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern

Company Gas), and NorthStar Midstream, LLC (under leadership of

Tim Casey from K-Sea Marine and backed by funds that are managed by an infrastructure group within Oaktree, and Clean Marine Energy

LLC). The principals of the latter include the van Reesema family, best known for their investment in the Jones Act tanker American Phoenix.

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