Singapore and Japan are initiating a working group to study the feasibility of LNG fuelled car carriers plying the trade between the two countries.

Skangas has signed an agreement with ESL Shipping to provide fuel for its two new LNG-powered newbuildings.

What is claimed to be the world’s first container ship retrofitted with an LNG engine has undergone initial bunkering at the Kühlhauskai in the Port of Bremerhaven.

Britain’s leading LPG supplier Flogas has this week carried out the first bunkering of a ship with LNG in the UK, at Port of Immingham belonging to AB Ports.

Oil major Shell is beefing up its move into the nascent LNG bunkering market with the delivery of a bunker tanker and charter of a barge.

Three more companies have joined the SEA\LNG the cross sector coalition aiming to promote the use of LNG as a marine fuel.

Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Kyushu Electric Power have agreed to collaborate in the fields of LNG transportation that would utilise NYK’s vessels.

Singapore LNG Corporation (SLNG) has completed its first small scale LNG reload at its terminal on Singapore’s Jurong Island, setting the stage for Singapore to expand on LNG bunkering and transhipment activities.

The first ship-to-ship bunkering operations have taken place at the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium.

LNG as a marine fuel will bring with it more complexities to the bunkering process and change the relationship between the owner and the supplier, according to ExxonMobil's global marketing manager marine fuels and lubricants, Iain White.