Shell Trading (US) Co. has finalised a long-term charter agreement with Q-LNG Transport LLC for an LNG bunker barge with the capacity to carry 4000 m3 of LNG fuel.
The ocean-going LNG bunker barge - the first of its kind to be based in the US - will supply LNG to marine customers along the southern East Coast of the US and support growing cruise line demand for LNG marine fuel.
Maarten Wetselaar, Integrated Gas and New Energies Director at Shell, said: “This investment in LNG as a marine fuel for the US will provide the shipping industry with a fuel that helps meet tougher emissions regulations from 2020 […] Our commitment in the Americas builds on Shell’s existing LNG bunkering activities in Singapore and Europe, as well as recently announced plans in the Middle East and gives us the ability to deliver LNG as a marine fuel to customers around the world.”
The LNG bunker barge will be owned and built by Q-LNG Transport LLC, and operated by Harvey Gulf International Marine LLC. It will feature an innovative transfer system enabling it to load LNG from big or small terminals and bunker a variety of customers.
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