LNG

Mitsui OSK Lines, the Japanese shipping firm, has completed liquefied natural gas bunkering trials at the Port of Kobe as the company aims to help bring cleaner LNG to shipping in Japan and elsewhere.

Four Japanese companies have formed two joint ventures to develop the LNG bunkering market in the ports of Japan, similar to operations started in the northwest European ports of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Zeebrugge in Belgium.