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The GTT Membrane tank for the Clean Jacksonville bunker barge.

dinavia typically see LNG delivered by Shell Western LNG BV. With Wartsila retro? t two roll-on roll-off vessels for the Jones Act tanker American Phoenix.

truck to vessels at a fueling dock. A more supplied cargo handling systems and LNG propulsion at the Seaspan Shipyard The barge Clean Jacksonville, in turn, complete model, the recently completed tanks, the 3,000 cbm vessel that will be in Vancouver, with BC. MAN Diesel & is owned by Wespac Midstream, part of

Tornio Manga LNG Terminal on the owned through French / Belgian consor- Turbo undertaking the conversion. The the Oaktree family, and Clean Marine

Gulf of Bothnia in Finland, will receive tium and then chartered by the oil major. retro? t to LNG propulsion, delayed part- Energy LLC. Mr. Casey, in a prepared gas in small tankers and has plans to pro- Its smaller size will afford the additional ly due to scheduling changes in the wake statement, revealed the longer term vide LNG for vessels in the future. In ? exibility to bunker vessels operating on of the El Faro sinking, will be completed game-plan for the Jacksonville JAX

North America, Harvey Gulf Marine’s Europe’s inland waterways. The barge is by 2021. LNG business, saying, “The facility will pioneering LNG fueling installation at being built in Romania and will be out- Initially, the vessels are being fueled by include a marine dock to load bunkering

Port Fourchon, part of a larger lique- ? tted in the Netherlands. LNG produced in a Georgia facility and barges that will deliver marine LNG up faction and distribution project, will Elsewhere in Europe, the world’s ? rst then trucked to Jacksonville, in specially and down the East Coast of the United be serving the company’s ? eet of LNG LNG bunkering vessel, the 5,000 cbm designed containers, where the carefully States.” fueled OSVs (several of which are on Engie Zeebruge went into service in Bel- choreographed LNG bunkering opera- The Northeast Florida hub of the U.S. charter to Shell) and those of third party gium in early 2017. The vessel (jointly tions take place under U.S. Coast Guard to Puerto Rico trades is also emerging customers. owned by Mitsubishi Corp, NYK and (USCG) supervision. as the fulcrum for the LNG bunkering

LNG bunkering barges are a movable two European gas companies) boasts In the coming months, fueling will business around the Caribbean. Crow- link in the fuel supply chain, solving the customers that include United European be conducted from a newly constructed ley Maritime, also based in Jacksonville, ‘chicken and egg’ dilemma as they can Carriers, who also operates LNG fueled 2,200 cbm LNG barge built at Conrad will soon be placing two LNG powered move to where the ships are. In service vessels calling in North Europe. In Scan- Shipyard. In late summer, TOTE Mari- container/ RoRo vessels built at VT Hal- now, a handful of these LNG bunker dinavia, the 5,800 cbm Coralius was time’s fuel provider, JAX LNG, has re- ter, into service. barges replenish their fuel inventory at delivered this past summer and will be ceived a Letter of Acceptance (LOA) These will be served by another liq- a liquefaction facility and then move to serving the Skagerrak/Kattegat area and from the USCG for the operation of its uefaction plant, Eagle LNG (backed by where the customers are. also the Baltic Sea. waterfront LNG facility (which will in- Texas-based Energy & Materials Group

Seacor Holdings, for example, has ac- The vessel is owned by shipowner An- clude a small liquefaction plant) and and gas supplier Ferus). Gas for this knowledged that LNG bunkering “…is thony Veder and Sirius Shipping, and the approval to conduct barge-to-ship project, which could come on stream in starting to come into the market…” ac- will be on charter to Skangas, a distribu- LNG bunkering operations. According 2019 if all approvals are in order, and for cording to Chief Operating Of? cer Eric tor serving Norway, Sweden and Fin- to TOTE, “Barge-to-ship LNG bunker- possible future facilities, will come from

Fabrikant. Fabrikant says that Seacor land. Skangas Chief Executive Of? cer ing is scheduled to commence in early Exxon. In the interim, when the two ves- looks closely at non-commoditized sec- Kimmo Rahkamo offered in a prepared 2018.” sels begin service in 2018, Crowley will tors of the market, and described LNG statement, “It is a valuable add-on to our be fueling from two cryogenic tanks, at bunker barges as “a nascent space.” existing bunkering methods of trucks The Way Forward the Talleyrand Marine Terminal in the and terminals along the coast.” Initially, When it comes to LNG bunkering, port.

Early Adopters the vessel loaded LNG at the Skangas ? nancial complexity matches logisti- The recurring themes of the new busi-

Among the oil majors, Shell has taken production facility at Stavanger. cal complexity. JAX LNG is a newly ness model are clear. A Ferus news item early and big steps in LNG fuel supply. In the U.S. marketplace, the ? rst strides formed company owned by Pivotal LNG explains, “The produced LNG will be

Rotterdam is the base for its 6,500 cbm have been taken by TOTE Maritime, (a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern transported to markets in the Caribbean bunker tanker Cardissa, which takes which serves Jones Act routes linking Company Gas), and NorthStar Mid- and Latin America for power generation. on LNG at the Gas Access to Europe the Paci? c Northwest with Alaska, and stream, LLC (under leadership of Tim It will also be delivered to local and (GATE) terminal, which in turn takes Jacksonville with Puerto Rico. TOTE Casey from K-Sea Marine and backed by regional markets, including marine bun- delivery of LNG in large quantities from has deployed two NASSCO-built 3,100 funds that are managed by an infrastruc- kering and high horsepower applications oceangoing tankers that bring gas from TEU containerships, both with capabil- ture group within Oaktree, and Clean for domestic consumption.” Crowley the Mideast and Asia and then store it. ity to be fueled by LNG, in the Puerto Marine Energy LLC). The principals of has already been supplying LNG, in

A second vessel will be working out Rico (Jacksonville/San Juan) trades. Its the latter include the van Reesema fam- tank containers, to Puerto Rico, through of Rotterdam, and placed on charter to Alaska division has announced plans to ily, best known for their investment in its Carib Energy subsidiary, acquired 32 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • MAY 2018

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