The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved aRs 10,000 crore package for the second phase of Faster Adoption & Manufacturing of Electric (and hybrid) vehicles (FAME) scheme.Union Finance Minister ArunJaitley said that second package will continue for three years till 31st March, 2022.

Scheme Highlights

• To support 10 lakh electric two-wheeler, 5 lakh electric three-wheeler, 55,000 electric four-wheeler and 7,000 buses;
• To establish charging infrastructures connecting major city clusters, where stations will be available at every 25 km on both sides of the road;
• Electrification of the public transportation that includes shared transport;
• Demand Incentives on operational expenditure mode, for electric buses will be delivered through State/city transport corporation (STUs);
• In three-wheeler and four-wheeler segment incentives will be applicable mainly to vehicles used for public transport or registered for commercial purposes.
• In the two-wheeler segment, the focus will be on the private vehicles.
• To encourage advance technologies, the benefits of incentives, will be extended to only those vehicles which are fitted with advance battery-Lithium Ion battery and other new technology batteries;
• Establishment of 2700 charging infrastructure in metros, other million plus cities, smart cities and cities of Hilly states across the country, at least one charging station in a grid of 3 km x 3 km should be available.

Source: electricvehicles.in

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Today, 14 out of the 15 most polluted cities in the world are in India. Left unchecked, we are staring not only at severe health costs but also losing highly skilled work force to migration abroad.Transportation is an outsized contributor to this situation, if not the sole one. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are an integral part solution to this problem, which justifies strong public support for their adoption. However, despite generous tax subsidies, and other forms of support, adoption is not occurring at the pace and scale needed to have a meaningful impact on oil imports and urban air quality. Also, subsidies have proven unsustainable even for the wealthy countries (e.g. Norway). Nevertheless, there is reason for optimism. The basic point here is that policymakers should recognise some new realities, and tweak our policies to take full advantage of such facts.Two recent economic developments justify an even more aggressive but a smarter policy agenda. First, is the dramatic reductions in the global cost of battery storage. The last decade has witnessed a six-fold reduction in the international price of Li-ion storage batteries (about $1000 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in 2010 to about $170 per kWh in 2018).This has substantially mitigated the disadvantage of BEVs in terms of upfront cost and propelled them ahead of other zero emissions technologies, the most notable being hydrogen fuel-cells. Indeed, BEVs cause pollution during power generation, and during battery production and disposal. It is, therefore, imperative we decarbonise electricity and ensure the batteries are environmentally sustainable.Second, is the fall in cost of solar and wind electricity as evidenced in the prices discovered in repeated auctions by the Solar Energy Corporation of India.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/article26403183.ece

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This investment came after Ola announced its plan for bringing up 1 million electric vehicles to Indian roads by 2022.“Ola Electric is currently running several pilot programmes to deploy electric vehicles and charging solutions, including battery swapping stations and electric two-wheeler and three-wheeler services, among others,” said the company.Anand Shah, head of Ola Electric Mobility said, “The first problem to solve in electric mobility is charging: users need a dependable, convenient, and affordable replacement for the petrol pump,” “By making electric easy for commercial vehicles that deliver a disproportionate share of kilometers traveled, we can jump-start the electric vehicle revolution.”The company has already partnered with several original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and battery manufacturers and wants to work closely with the automotive industry. It is planning to develop a network of shared EVs came from a dream of Soft-Bank CEO Masayoshi Son, said in 2017 that he would gift 1 million electric cars to India through Ola in an event.Ola is looking for its own kit for the electrification of three-wheelers but it is getting delayed. It had appointed ChinamNetajiPatro from Bajaj Auto, as its senior director of electric vehicles to handle the project but he left the company last year in November.

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As many as 550 of the 1,000-odd manufacturing units in the cluster are facing closure as they run on coal gasifiers. The notice, issued by GPCB’s Morbi unit head D M Taker, warns that punitive measures will be taken if units fail to switch to LNG/PNG in seven days. NGT’s Delhi bench ordered that coal gasifiers be dismantled and directed ceramics units to switch to LNG/PNG if they wanted to continue operations. This measure to curb pollution is likely to disrupt production in the Rs 40,000-crore industry. The NGT issued these directions in response to a petition by a Palanpur resident, BabubhaiSaini.The closure notice warns that if any unit fails to comply with the NGT directions, strict action will be taken without any any chance of a hearing. GPCB also cautioned that prosecution under Section 41(2) of the Water Act, 1974 and Section 37 of the Air Act,1981, will be initiated against non-compliant units, and could result in imprisonment for up to one year and six months.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/closure-notice-to-550-morbi-ceramic-units/articleshow/68340400.cms

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Breaking from the two-and-a-half decade-old practice of having a uniform contractual regime for all sedimentary basins in the country, the new policy provides for different rules for areas that already have producing fields and ones where commercial production of oil and gas is yet to be established.Irrespective of the basins, producers will get complete marketing and pricing freedom for oil and gas in future bid rounds, said an official notification detailing rule changes approved by the Cabinet last month. Oil and gas acreage or blocks in all future bid rounds will be awarded primarily on the basis of exploration work commitment, it said.While companies will have to pay a share of revenue from oil and gas produced in Category-I sedimentary basins such as Krishna Godavari, Mumbai Offshore, Rajasthan or Assam where commercial production has already been established, they will be charged only prevalent royalty rates on oil and natural gas in the less-explored Category-II and III basins.“To expedite production, concessional royalty rates will be applicable if production is commenced within four years for onland and shallow water blocks, and five years for deep water and ultra-deepwater blocks from the effective date of the contract,” it said.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/oil-gas-policy-overhaul-govt-not-to-seek-share-of-profit-on-output-from-less-explored-areas/article26502049.ece[Edited]

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down 20 cents from the previous week at the lowest since Aug. 4, 2017 when they hit $5.90 per MMBtu, Eikon data showed.Spot demand from China, the world’s second-largest LNG importer, remained slow, but there were some enquiries for April cargoes, trade sources said.“The (Lunar New Year) holidays are over and some industries are back online, but I think (demand) will be the same as usual, though it’s still difficult to say which way it will go,” said a China-based industry source.Total shipments of the super-chilled fuel into Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan were at about 15.94 MMT in February, down nearly 19 percent from the previous month, shipping data from RefinitivEikon showed.While it is common for monthly import volumes to drop in February as peak-winter demand tapers off, that marked the biggest monthly decline from January to February since at least 2013, the data showed.Chevron Corp’s Gorgon LNG export plant in Australia brought its train 3 back online after an unplanned outage, sources said earlier this week.The train had been shut since mid-January to address a mechanical issue.LNG loadings from Malaysia’s Bintulu export plant are also normal after a fire at the complex late last week, sources said earlier this week.Elsewhere, Nigeria LNG’s train 1 and 2 which were recently offline, are now back online and normal operations have resumed, NLNG’s spokesman told Reuters this week. “There was no cargo delivery loss recorded as the cargoes were rescheduled,” he added.Russia delivered a record amount of LNG to Europe in February, becoming the biggest supplier of the chilled fuel to the continent for the first time.In tenders and deals, traders said Mexico’s CFE is seeking two cargoes for delivery in March and another two cargoes for April into the Manzanillo terminal, while sources said Indonesia’s Bontang LNG export facility offered to sell at least two cargoes for April and May.

Asian spot prices for LNG dropped the current week for the eleventh week in a row, and have now lost more than 30 percent in value since the start of the year.Prices for April delivery to northeast Asia are estimated at $5.70 per MMBtu, $0.30/mmBtu below last week. That is the first time prompt prices have fallen below $6.00/MMBtu since early August 2017, according to Reuters data.Prices for May delivery are estimated to be slightly higher than for April, largely due to the very weak prompt price, LNG traders said.

Source: LNG Global 

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the part of state-owned energy company Petrobangla that oversees LNG supplies, on Jan. 3 requested interest from potential terminal developers for a land-based LNG regasification terminal at Matarbari in the Cox’s Bazar district of southern Bangladesh. The initial EOIs were supposed to be due by March 20 but the companies hoping to take part asked for more time. “The deadline for submission will be extended by three months as potential developers sought more time,” one of the sources said. The EOI is for the design, engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of a land-based terminal that can handle 7.5 MMTPA of LNG, including receiving, unloading, storage and re-gasification facilities. The project is expected to be built on a build-own-operate basis for 20 years, with ownership then transferred to the Bangladeshi government or a company nominated by the government at no cost. The onshore terminal, which can be expanded to 15 MMTPA in the future, is part of Bangladesh’s strategy to develop its gas sector with private companies, according to the document. The project developer will be required to arrange the necessary financing.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/bangladesh-extends-deadline-to-submit-plans-to-build-new-lng-terminal/

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The project’s first phase of 3 MMTPA will be used by state utility Taipower, she said. Taiwan is the world’s fifth largest LNG importer with an import volume of 16.8 MMTPA in 2018. The island is boosting its LNG imports as it phases out nuclear and coal to generate electricity in the next decade. Taiwan aims to have LNG import capability of 10 MMTPA each in the country’s north, central and south by 2027, Liao said, adding that CPC will continue to expand existing terminals at Taichung and Yung-An in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. CPC is currently the only LNG importer in Taiwan and has long-term supplies from Australia, Qatar, Papua New Guinea and Malaysia. To diversify supplies, the company will start receiving LNG from the United States in 2021 after CPC inked a 25-year deal with Cheniere Energy last year. CPC is also eyeing new supplies from Russia’s Sakhalin island in the Pacific, or the U.S. state of Alaska and may seek joint purchases with other buyers from Japan and South Korea, Liao said.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/taiwans-cpc-to-start-building-third-lng-terminal-by-mid-2019/

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The Petronas FLNG (PFLNG) Satu is now moored in the Kebabangan cluster field, some 90 km northwest of the state’s capital city of Kota Kinabalu, the company said. The facility was previously moored in the Kumang cluster field off the coast of Bintulu in neighbouring Sarawak, where it began the world’s first LNG production from a floating platform in 2017. “Petronas has delivered 19 successful cargoes since the commissioning of PFLNG Satu and we are confident that this success continues in Sabah waters as well,” Mohd Anuar Taib, Petronas executive vice-president and upstream chief executive, said in a statement.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/petronas-moves-floating-lng-facility-to-new-location-off-sabah/

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China Petroleum and Chemical, known as Sinopec, reached a consensus in late-2018 on commercial terms after months of negotiations, but the signing of the deal was held back by the ongoing trade friction between the world’s top two economies, one of the sources, who has direct knowledge of the matter, told Reuters.“Without the trade spat, the deal should have been signed some time ago,” the source said, declining to be named because the matter is not public.In recent weeks, Beijing and Washington appear to have moved closer to a deal to end a bruising eight-month dispute that has seen the countries slap tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of the other’s good. A resolution is widely expected to include stepped-up Chinese purchase of U.S. goods.Sinopec intends to buy close to 2 MMTPA of LNG from Houston-based Cheniere starting 2023, the two sources added, without giving a deal value.Based on the delivered cost of U.S.-sourced supplies into east China in January at $8.30 per MMBtu given by Chinese customs, the 20-year deal would amount to roughly $16 billion.The Wall Street Journal reported that as part of a trade deal with the United States, China would buy $18 billion worth of natural gas from Cheniere. Officials from Cheniere visited Beijing in late February, said a third source, who was also familiar with the matter.In February 2018, before the trade war started, PetroChina’s parent company CNPC signed a 20-year deal with Cheniere to buy 1.2 MMTPA of LNG through 2043, with a portion of the supply beginning in 2018.

Source: LNG Global

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The $24 billion man behind Russia’s largest, privately owned natural gas company Novatek inked a $2.5 billion deal with Total on Tuesday for a liquefied natural gas project estimated to cost $21 billion, though that price keeps falling. In January, Mikhelson said it was worth around $45 billion.The deal for the sale of 10% of Novatek’s Arctic LNG-2 project was signed last year at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum—deemed the Russian Davos—in the presence of president Vladimir Putin and France’s president Emmanuel Macron.According to Russian business daily Vedomosti, only five wells have been drilled in Russia’s Arctic shelf compared to over 300 wells in Norway and around 100 in the U.K.The Russian government is said to be preparing a new investment plan for the region by the end of the month.Novatek will be looking for more corporate partners for Arctic LNG-2. An American oil and gas company will not be one of them.Novatek has avoided U.S. sanctions, but Mikhelson has been preparing his company for them just in case. He has switched financing from dollars to euros and has upwards of $12 billion in loans from Chinese banks.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/forbes-richest-russian-gets-even-richer-in-lng-deal/[Edited]

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Our respective organizations share an interest in the successful commercialization of Alaska’s stranded North Slope natural gas,” AGDC Interim President Joe Dubler said in a statement.BP and Exxon Mobil produce massive amounts of oil in Alaska and have discovered huge gas resources that are stranded in the North Slope.The Alaska LNG project is designed to liquefy 3.5 billion cubic feet per day of gas for sale to customers in the Asia-Pacific region from a facility to be built in Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage. It includes an 807-mile (1,300-km) pipeline from the North Slope.U.S. energy regulators recently delayed the date they expect to decide on the LNG project to June 2020 from February 2020.Officials at AGDC have said the company is reviewing the timeline to get the project built.At the same time, AGDC said it is continuing negotiations with several parties interested in the project, including a joint development agreement with Chinese oil and gas company Sinopec, China’s sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp’s CIC Capital Corp and the state-owned Bank of China.

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/bp-exxon-gas-alaska/2019/03/10/id/906280/

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.The Delfin LNG project will be the first of its kind for the United States, which has only onshore liquefaction facilities, and will produce up to 13 MMTPA of LNG for export.Delfin could export to China, the world’s second-largest LNG buyer, but a 10% tariff on U.S. LNG as part of the trade conflict begun by U.S. President Donald Trump last year has served to restrict imports.The two countries now appear close to a deal that would roll back U.S. tariffs on at least $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. Beijing would also scrap retaliatory tariffs and there would be an $18 billion purchase of LNG from CheniereEnergy , the country’s top producer of the fuel.Delfin has signed a memorandum of understanding to supply 3 MMTPA of LNG to China Gas Holdings Co (0384.HK), one of China’s most active city gas distributors.The project, which could ultimately utilise up to four FLNG vessels, is expected to have similar costs to the HilliEpiseyo FLNG vessel developed by Delfin’s partner Golar LNG and has started production off Cameroon.The Hilli vessel, converted from an ageing tanker for $1.2 billion, produced its first LNG on March 12 last year, but its sole offtaker Gazprom only exported its first cargo in May, also to China, after technical issues hampered production.The Delfin LNG partners are targeting a final investment decision for the project by the end of the year and the first LNG production in the second half of 2023.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/first-u-s-floating-lng-project-to-move-ahead-despite-china-trade-war-partner/

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The maritime industry really has two broad but major environmental initiatives related to air emissions; dramatic improvement of global air quality, and reduction of GHGs.Reinforcing the case for LNG as a marine fuel, SEA\LNG Chairman Peter Keller said: “In addition to immediate local air quality benefits, LNG offers a commercially viable long-term bridging solution to addressing the IMO GHG targets. LNG, in combination with efficiency measures being developed for new ships in response to the IMO’s Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI), will provide a way of meeting the IMO’s target of a 40% decrease in GHG by 2030 for international shipping. In addition, there are clear technology pathways being developed which should allow further emissions savings to be realised. For example, today, mixing LNG with bioLNG (from biogas) as a ‘drop-in’ fuel significantly reduces GHG emissions. Longer term, ‘power-to-gas’ is a key technology with the potential to produce large volumes of renewable LNG.”LNG far outperforms conventional marine fuels in terms of minimising local emissions to improve air quality and can significantly reduce GHG emissions. SEA\LNG together with SGMF has commissioned an independent study to establish the facts regarding GHG emissions from LNG as a marine fuel considering all emissions from well-to-wake for LNG and other fuels. This study is currently being reviewed by independent academics and SEA\LNG and SGMF expect to publish the results in April.Future technologies that appear to have promise, safety, and scalability could be built upon marine fuel infrastructure for LNG and clearly indicate that it is inaccurate to conclude that LNG will not provide a pathway to meeting IMO 2050 GHG ambitions. LNG can and does solve the air quality issues the maritime industry has been working on for decades and sets a path forward to meet IMO GHG targets.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/lng-does-offer-pathway-to-imo-2050/

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The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries in its policy plan for this year released on Thursday said it will place orders for 60 new ocean-going vessels through Korea Ocean Business Corp., a state entity launched last year devoted to promoting shipping and shipbuilding industries with an aim to order a total of 200 ships by 2022. The state entity already placed orders for 57 vessels including container carriers and liquefied natural gas tankers last year.To meet the growing demand for eco-friendly ships, the government will subsidize 10 percent of the ship coverage if a company upgrades old vessels with eco-friendly features.The ministry will also seek ways to prevent cutthroat competition among local shippers and strengthen their global competitiveness. It will encourage mergers among the country’s eight major container carriers to bring down the number to six bigger names. Operators for the country’s main ports such as Incheon and Busan will be transformed into bigger entities through mergers.To reclaim the shipping routes that the country lost following the collapse of Korea’s once leading container carrier Hanjin Shipping in 2016, the ministry will provide aids to shippers on opening new routes and expanding shipping capacity. K-Global Terminal Operators (K-GTO) will be formed in cooperation with shippers, port authorities, and Korea Ocean Business. K-GTO will work to secure operation rights of shipping terminals in Southeast Asian countries with high growth potentials such as Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/seoul-to-order-60-ships-subsidize-lng-fueled-ships-to-help-maritime-industry/

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The container vessel MV SAJIR is owned by Hapag-Lloyd, one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies, and normally serves a route from Asia to northern Europe via the Suez canal. The pilot project will entail the conversion of an existing, HFO-burning MAN B&W 9S90ME-C engine to a dual-fuel MAN B&W ME-GI (-Gas Injection) prime mover capable of running on HFO and LNG. The retrofit will be done at the Chinese Hudong/HRDD shipyard, specialized in ship repair and conversion.Wayne Jones OBE – Chief Sales Officer and Member of the Executive Board, MAN Energy Solutions – said: “We are seeing great interest in this project from the industry as a whole. This is an excellent showcase for the conversion of a mega-container vessel to LNG and the potential benefits for the market is huge. With this announcement, MAN Energy Solutions is once again at the forefront of technology with our ability to execute LNG conversions for both four-stroke and two-stroke engines.”The emission savings for MAN B&W two-stroke engines are significant when converting an existing HFO engine to LNG. Using LNG in the shipping industry could reduce CO2 emissions by 15 to 20 percent and sulphur dioxide and particulate matter by more than 90 percent.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/shipping-heavyweight-orders-worlds-first-mega-container-vessel-retrofit-to-lng/[Edited]

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The Dacks shipyard in Dalian, Liaoning Province, completed a second dock on Friday, which spans 550 by 68 meters. The site is operated by Dalian Cosco KHI Ship Engineering, a joint venture of the Japanese manufacturer and China Cosco Shipping.The potential shift to the new China dock stems from cutthroat competition by South Korean shipbuilders, which are bolstered by government subsidies. In Japan, shipyards are smaller and labor costs are higher. Kawasaki Heavy has worked to curb costs, but the crux of the issue remains unaddressed.The first dock at the Dalian shipyard has produced 41 vessels, including bulk carriers to transport mineral ores and grains, as well as megatankers and containerships.The second dock was being planned when the Dacks shipyard opened in 2007. But the company shelved the project due to the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent decline in ship demand worldwide. The partners decided in 2015 to reinstate the investment plan.Other Japanese shipbuilders are moving operations abroad. Mitsui E&S Holdings is set to form a joint venture in April with Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, China’s private-sector leader in the field. Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, based in Hiroshima Prefecture, has increased shipbuilding in the Philippines and China.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/kawasaki-heavy-looks-to-build-lng-carriers-in-china/

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New Energy for Vessels and Trucks? – Facts, Trends and Perspectives, which Shell developed with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Technical University of Hamburg.Assuming that by 2040 there will be 6,000 (mainly) large LNG ships worldwide and 480,000 LNG trucks in the EU, greenhouse gas emissions from shipping could be reduced by 132 MMT by 2040 and from heavy trucks by up to 4.7 MMT, depending on engine technology. With a 30% share of organic LNG, an additional reduction of around 20% would be possible for trucks. Greenhouse gas emissions for the entire German transport sector are currently around 166 MMT.“We see great potential for LNG in shipping. This applies in particular to container ships, which have comparatively high fuel consumption due to their high power requirements. Passenger ships play a pioneering role. If LNG replaces heavy oil, there will be high emission advantages,” says Shell Chief Economist Dr. Jörg Adolf.“In road freight transport, LNG is particularly suitable for heavy trucks as an alternative to diesel fuel. In order to achieve high emission savings, however, LNG from renewable energies such as bio LNG is needed,” explains DLR transport expert Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Lischke.The International Energy Agency (IEA) assumes that global natural gas trading will grow by around two thirds by 2040 and that more than 80% of this growth will be covered by LNG. While today about 8 to 9% of the consumed natural gas is LNG, it will then be about 14%.Ships make a significant contribution to the emission of traffic-related air pollutants. In addition, international maritime traffic accounts for around 3% of global carbon dioxide emissions. LNG is currently the only seriously discussed and market-ready alternative to oil-based marine fuels. Accordingly, the study assumes that the stock of LNG seagoing vessels will grow significantly faster than the total stock by 2040. Container ships in particular are developing dynamically here. Passenger ships such as cruise ships and ferries will play a pioneering role.In road transport, LNG is mainly used for heavy trucks and semitrailer tractors. The number of heavy trucks and articulated lorries in the EU will increase by 307,000 to 2.76 million by 2040 if the current registration trends continue. 480,000 (17%) of these would then have an LNG drive and would substitute diesel fuel consumption of up to 11.5 billion litres. There are currently about 4,000 LNG trucks in the EU.

As a member of the BioLNGEuroNet consortium, Shell intends to set up 39 LNG filling stations along the main routes from Spain to eastern Poland in the medium term, 10 of them in Germany. Shell currently offers 9 LNG filling stations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. More will be added in Germany this year.

https://www.ngvglobal.com/blog/shell-study-quantifies-reduction-of-ghg-emissions-using-lng-fuel-0302

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The LNG bunker vessel Coralius celebrated a milestone at the end of February, as she completed her 100th bunkering operation in just 18 months. Coralius delivers LNG through ship-to-ship bunkering at sea and in port. This has significantly increased Gasum’s flexibility and responsiveness to vessels that require LNG but are unable to visit a terminal or a port. By making LNG more accessible to vessels, ship-to-ship bunkering also boosts efficiency. “100 ship-to-ship bunkerings is a great milestone for Gasum as well as for our customers. With Coralius, we have been able to perform bunkering to different types of vessels, which is quite unique and demands us to be prepared for all types of vessels. The bunkering operations are swift and safe, and we have received great feedback from our customers. Coralius has definitely increased Gasum’s flexibility as an LNG supplier,” says KimmoRahkamo, Vice President, natural gas and LNG, Gasum.In 2019, Coralius will perform more bunkering operations than in 2018. Gasum foresees an increase in the average amount of delivered stem, as it will perform bunkerings on shuttle tankers and other bigger vessels. Coralius has increased its efficiency due to LNG bunkering operations becoming faster – they are now nearly as quick as normal oil bunkerings, which has also increased customer satisfaction.LNG marine fuel meets all current SOx (sulphur oxides) and planned NOx (nitrogen oxides) requirements. It eliminates particles and can reduce CO2 emissions by at least 20% compared to traditional fuels. LNG is suitable for all vessel types and it contributes significantly to a greener shipping environment.Coralius was built by the Royal Bodewes in the Netherlands and is the first European built LNG bunker and distribution vessel. It is equipped with state-of-the-art LNG transfer equipment for bunkering and has a cargo capacity of 5,800 m3.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/coralius-reaches-100-bunkerings-milestone-lng-demand-on-the-rise/

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where small and medium-sized cruise ships usually dock when they visit the city. The supply was in charge of Repsol, which used five tanker trucks that had previously been loaded with LNG at the terminal of Reganosa. In total, 178 cubic meters of fuel were delivered.The vessels are the Samnøy and Huftarøy ferries, which were just built at the Turkish Tersan Shipyard, and stopped at Ferrol on their way to the Norwegian fjords, where they will be used in passenger services by the Torghatten Nord shipping company. With a length of 134 meters and a width of 21 meters, both vessels have been designed to transport each one to 545 people and up to 180 vehicles.Ferrol has the advantage of having a terminal like Reganosa in its port. In addition, the Port Authority of Ferrol-San Cibrao was a pioneer in the study of measures to develop this supply, in partnership with Reganosa, Navantia and the container terminal operator of the outer port. Precisely, the containership fleet is expected to further grow LNG adoption: the number of vessels is increasing at an annual rate of 15-20%.The Iberian Peninsula currently offers one of the fastest growing markets in terms of the adoption of natural gas in maritime transport. In this extremely encouraging scenario, AltFuels Iberia 2019 will take place on 11-14 June at IFEMA Trade Center, Madrid. It will be an event consisting of first level conferences and exhibition of vehicles of all kinds, refueling stations, components, plants, road and marine engines, as well as the entire universe of the alternative fuels industry with the latest technological developments, multiple options for networking, business and new advances. For more information, please contact info@altfuelsiberia.com.

https://www.ngvjournal.com/s1-news/c7-lng-h2-blends/spanish-port-de-ferrol-performs-first-natural-gas-bunkering-operations/

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