CMA CGM’s first 23,000 TEU LNG container ship en route to Rotterdam
CMA CGM’s Jacques Saade is expected to arrive in Rotterdam for the first time Wednesday evening, 11 November. The container ship is also the first LNG-powered vessel with a capacity of more than 23,000 TEU...Read more
Cutter suction dredger Spartacus bunkers LNG for the first time
Titan LNG has performed ship-to-ship bunkering of DEME’s new giant cutter suction dredger (CSD) Spartacus. This was not only the first ever LNG bunkering of a CSD in DEME’s fleet, but also the first time...Read more
‘Bunkering facility not a must to get liquid hydrogen on board a ship’
In principle, there is nothing standing in the way of ships being supplied with liquid hydrogen today. According to Adrian Shakib, Tendering Manager at MAN Energy Solutions, ‘the technology is already there’, eliminating the need...Read more
EU funding for LNG bunkering barges in Zeebrugge, Rotterdam and Lübeck
Titan LNG has been granted EUR 11 million in EU funding for its Bio2Bunker project. This project develops and expands a (bio-)LNG bunkering supply chain by introducing three bunker barges in Zeebrugge, Rotterdam and Lübeck.Read more
Ulstein sketches requirements for a hydrogen-fuelled marine future
Ulstein has set out a roadmap to get to a hydrogen-fuelled marine industry. The ship designer already introduced a hydrogen-fuelled offshore construction vessel design at the end of 2019 which uses off-the-shelf technology, demonstrating a...Read more
Stena Bulk tests bio-fuel on tanker
During the coming weeks Stena Bulk will perform a test running a medium range tanker on one hundred per cent biofuel. The fuel is the MR1-100 bio-fuel oil, produced from used cooking oil and supplied...Read more
Sleipnir sets LNG bunkering world record in Rotterdam
Heerema’s Sleipnir, the world’s most powerful semi-submersible crane vessel has received the largest LNG bunkering ever completed. Titan LNG organised the bunkering, using the Coral Fraseri, Anthony Veder’s LNG carrier in the Port of Rotterdam. The...Read more
Fuel prices take a massive nosedive
Fuel prices have taken a massive nosedive since the beginning of the year with low sulphur fuel prices in Singapore dropping from 734 US dollars per tonne on January 1st to 415 US dollars per...Read more
Cleaner marine fuels on the rise in Port of Rotterdam
The demand for LNG, bio and low-sulphur bunkers has increased enormously in Rotterdam over the past year. The 2020 Sulphur Cap played a large role in this, reports the Port of Rotterdam Authority. Since 1 January...Read more
Type approval for laser-based dynamic positioning system
DNV GL has granted type approval for Wärtsilä’s SceneScan position reference system. It is the world’s first laser-based targetless relative dynamic positioning (DP) reference system that can work without the need for pre-placed positioning targets. Without...Read more
First LNG bunkering of seagoing vessel in Port of Antwerp
For the first time a seagoing vessel has bunkered LNG in the Port of Antwerp. LNG bunker vessel FlexFueler 001 of Dutch Titan LNG supplied the fuel to chemical tanker Ramelia. The Ramelia has sailed for...Read more
First LNG delivery for DEME’s offshore installation vessel Orion
In the second ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation to take place in Germany, the world’s largest LNG bunker vessel Kairos, operated by Nauticor, has supplied LNG to DEME’s next generation offshore installation vessel Orion. For the...Read more