14.05.2020
Artikel Nummer: 31993
Japan's first LNG bunker vessel launched
The joint venture of K Line, Jera, Toyota Tsusho and NYK has launched Japan’s first LNG bunker vessel (LBV) at the Sakaide Works of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The LBV is scheduled to be delivered at the end of September 2020 and will be the first of its kind to be operated in Japan.
After the delivery, the LBV will be based at Jera’s Kawagoe thermal power station and commence ship-to-ship LNG bunkering for LNG-fuelled vessels.
In 2018, the four partners of the JV jointly established Central LNG Shipping Japan Corporation (CLS), which owns the LBV and ordered its building, and Central LNG Marine Fuel Japan Corporation (CLMF), which will promote the LNG bunkering business in the Chubu (central) region of Japan. (mw)