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The Final Word

Pasha Hawaii selected Keppel AmFELS in Brownsville, TX for the construction of two new

LNG fueled containerships, with the option to order two additional vessels.

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William P. Doyle is a Commissioner with the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission.

The FMC, among other things, regulates liner companies, ocean transportation intermediaries and marine terminal op- erators. The thoughts and comments he expresses here are his own and should not be construed to represent the position of the Commission or his fellow Commissioners.

Pasha Hawaii

New Developments: Western LNG B.V. announced in April pany completely to LNG throughout its ships to run on gas will happen when

Oceangoing Vessels that it executed an agreement with Sov- logistics supply chain. It is expected that the necessary bunkering infrastructure

The oceangoing cruise ship industry is com? ot to supply LNG to fuel the ? rst four LNG cargo ships will be built. In is in place. UASC, in co-operation with getting involved. Carnival Group, MSC Aframax crude oil tankers in the world addition to the new ships, Container- Qatargas and Shell, is exploring LNG

Cruises and Royal Caribbean Cruise to be powered by LNG. ships is investing in LNG trucks. Its plan bunker supply options at a Middle East

Lines have placed orders for LNG fueled The four Aframax tankers will operate is to increase the ? eet of LNG trucks location, perhaps in and around the Suez ships. Carnival Group, has seven LNG- in the Baltic Sea and Northern Europe. and invest in an LNG refueling station Canal region. powered vessels on order. Royal Carib- The ice-classed, dual-fueled tankers are located in the U.K. RoRos are moving forward with the bean Cruises placed orders for two LNG scheduled for delivery in 2018. In its an- Japanese container shipping company full LNG fuel and bunker program. Unit- and fuel cell powered vessels to be built nouncement Shell stated: Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) this year ed European Car Carriers (UECC), an on a prototype platform. “More ship owners and operators are took delivery of the MOL Triumph, NYK/Wallenius Lines joint venture will

On June 5, 2017, MSC Cruises an- choosing LNG fuel over traditional for now the ‘world’s biggest container- receive the world’s ? rst LNG-powered nounced its order of four 200,000-ton marine fuels to respond to sulfur and ship’ and the ? rst ‘megaship’ to pass the pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs). The

LNG-fueled cruise ships. The cruise ship nitrogen oxide emissions regulations, 20,000 TEU threshold. vessels will be bunkered through ship- orders are expected to be delivered be- including the IMO’s recent decision to MOL built the Triumph as LNG ready, to-ship transfers by the Engie Zeebrug- tween 2022-2026. implement a global 0.5 percent sulfur with a retro? t option to convert to LNG ge, the world’s ? rst purpose-built LNG

Importantly, bunkering and sourcing cap in 2020.” fueled ship in the future as the ‘Interna- bunkering vessel.

of LNG for the ships is being addressed. On May 12, 2017, Pasha Hawaii an- tional Maritime Organization’s new reg-

Shell Global announced in September nounced that it had selected Keppel ulation to limit SOx emission in marine Natural Gas – MARPOL Connection 2016, it had signed a supply agreement AmFELS in Brownsville, Texas, for fuels comes into effect in 2020.’ MOL Shipowners have taken notice. LNG is with Carnival to supply LNG to fuel two the construction of two new LNG fu- is building six 20,000 TEU-class LNG an option that can help them meet the in- of the world’s largest passenger cruise eled containerships. Delivery of the ? rst ready containerships. ternational standards required for emis- ships. One cruise ship would refuel from vessel is expected in the ? rst quarter of United Arab Shipping Company sions. The ship part seems to be taking a special purpose Shell LNG bunker 2020, with the delivery of the second (UASC) is continuing with its LNG fu- care of itself with the advancements in vessel. The gas would be loaded onto vessel in the third quarter of 2020. Ac- eled newbuilding program of 17 LNG- technology – meaning the ships engines the bunker vessel at the Gas Access to cording to Pasha, the ships will operate ready ships, comprising six 18,800 TEU can be built to run on diesel or natural

Europe terminal in Rotterdam, the Neth- fully on LNG from the start of the ser- vessels and 11 of 15,000 TEU. UASC gas. What needs to happen next is the erlands. The second ship is expected to vice. was recently acquired by Germany’s supply of bunking facilities and bunker refuel at one of the ports in the Western Containerships, a Finnish logistics and Hapag-Lloyd. vessels must increase worldwide.

Mediterranean. container shipping service, recently an- According to UASC, upgrading the We’ll see what comes out of the IMO

Shell Global has been busy. Shell nounced it intends to transition the com- LNG-ready capability of the UASC meeting London in July!

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