LNG

The France-based global container shipping line, CMA CGM, has seen the first of nine LNG-powered vessels join its fleet and the ship’s maiden voyage starts on September 23 on the “French Asia” route calling at 12 ports in 84 days.

The cooperation of French energy major Total with China in large-scale liquefied natural gas investments in Russia's Arctic region projects has extended to small-scale LNG with the completion of its first bunkering vessel at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding yard near Shanghai.

Containerships, an Intra-Europe subsidiary of the French global container market participant, the CMA CGM Group, said it took delivery of its second vessel with liquefied natural gas capability to operate in its Baltic services from the Dutch Port of Rotterdam.

Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French engineering company specializing in the design of maritime LNG containment systems, secured 14 new orders during the third-quarter, signaling the continued upgrading and expansion of the global LNG carrier fleet.

French container ship company CMA CGM plans to use the Dutch port of Rotterdam as its primary bunkering port when its new LNG-powered fleet of nine vessels start being delivered by Chinese shipyards from 2020.

Gaztransport and Technigas (GTT), the French maritime storage tanks technology company, has been chosen by China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding to design cryogenic fuel tanks for nine LNG-fuelled container ships.

French energy company Engie has signed an accord to promote liquefied natural gas as a marine fuel with France’s largest shipping group CMA CGM, operator of a fleet of more than 400 container vessels.