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A new French LNG terminal has gone into operation to fulfill bunkering duties for a major French port
Source: Port of Marseille-Fos
France’s Port of Marseille-Fos is looking to become an LNG bunkering hub for the Mediterranean
The Fos Cavaou LNG terminal operated by Elengy, will offer 50 loading slots per year for small scale LNG loading vessels of a capacity up to 40 000 m3.
These vessels will supply the LNG-powered container ships, ferries and cruise ships that the Port of Marseille-Fos is preparing to welcome in the coming months.
LNG ready
In addition to supplying Marseille-Fos, the new terminal is also well located to become a ready source of LNG supply for many surrounding ports in the Western Mediterranean.
Back in 2019, France’s Marseille Fos port announced it was boosting its use of LNG as a marine fuel, aiming to position itself as an LNG bunkering hub for the Mediterranean.
Total and CMA CGM signed an agreement for the supply of approximately 270,000 tonnes per year of LNG over ten years covering the supply of CMA CGM’s new 15,000 teu container ships at Marseille-Fos operating between Asia and the Mediterranean.
As part of the agreement, the French port was given its own dedicated LNG bunkering vessel Total, chartered from Japan’s MOL.
Marseille-Fos carried out its first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation in early May 2020. LNG giant Shell and the world’s largest cruise operator Carnival carried out the second LNG bunkering operation in the port in June 2020 supplying fuel to the cruise ship Costa Smeralda.
As a member of the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF), the port says it is fully supporting the Society’s efforts of promoting LNG as fuel and developing standards.
Source : Greenport
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