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Port Canaveral “… The relationship with the LNG supplier is between the cruise line, or the cargo line, and the supplier. What we’re here to do is facilitate whatever vehicle they want to use for LNG and make sure it happens. We don’t want to have four cruise lines with four different concepts of operation. We don’t have enough real estate to support that.” – Captain John Murray, Port Canaveral CEO different concepts of operation. We don’t have enough real es- the commercial space industry contemplates burning LNG tate to support that.” Lurking in the background is the deal be- as a primary fuel, the need for the local space community to tween Harvey Gulf and Shell to build an ATB LNG carrier to source this energy becomes more important. Already serving supply bunkers to U.S.-based cruise lines. The changing land- the space industries maritime assets, Canaveral looks to do the scape adds up to two things: LNG as a fuel is moving ahead, same thing when it comes to fueling the rockets of tomorrow.

and the cruise industry is emerging as the primary driver. Port For Port Canaveral, space, and not cruise ships, will be the

Canaveral aims to be at heart of that development. initial driver for LNG. Murray puts the situation in perspec-

Port Canaveral also has other plans for this clean fuel. As tive. “We’ve got the ships coming; we’ve got the rockets com- 28 Maritime Logistics Professional January/February 2018 | |