Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has won an order to build its first two dual-fuel diesel LNG harbour tugs, and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with oil major Shell to explore opportunities in using LNG as fuel.

Singapore has expanded a 2014-established international focus group collaborating on LNG bunkering from four members to eight members.

Singapore’s Pavilion Energy and oil major ExxonMobil will team up to develop LNG bunkering solutions for Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering port.

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has inked a 20-year charter contract with Gas Sayago of Uruguay for the world’s largest FSRU.

Changjiang Ship Design Institute and Kunlun Energy & CSC (Wuhan) Natural Gas, both subsidiaries of China’s Sinotrans & CSC Holdings, have inked a strategic collaboration on developing green shipping along the Yangtze River.

Keppel Offshore & Marine has formed a joint venture with Shell to start LNG bunkering business, and clinched marine projects worth SGD120m ($89m).

The Japanese government has launched a feasibility study for LNG bunkering in the port of Yokohama, making this the first LNG bunkering facility development project in Japan.

The PoseidonMed LNG bunkering project came to Posidonia yesterday in a forum comprising many of the key partners in the initiative.

China’s Chongqing government has set a target to promote the use of 200 LNG-powered river cargo vessels along the Yangtze River by 2020, as part of the province’s overall drive for environmental friendliness, reports said.

As it moves towards starting LNG bunkering Singapore awarded two supplier licenses to Pavilion Gas and a venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine and BG Group.