Titan Awards Contract for Bunkering Pontoon

Titan LNG, a leading northwest Europe bunker LNG supplier, has announced the manufacturing consortium to build Europe’s first LNG bunkering pontoon.

It said October 18 that shipbuilder Kooiman Marine Group will head the consortium to build the Titan LNG FlexFueler001, jointly with Marine Services Noord and Cryovat International, all based in the Netherlands. This follows receipt of the principal design approval for the pontoon from Bureau Veritas.

Titan LNG’s COO Ronald van Selm, said: “We are very content with this consortium as each party is an evident leader in its own field. Furthermore, they have successfully cooperated in the past already. This will significantly decrease risk during the building period. I’m confident that we will jointly build this fit for purpose and state-of-art LNG bunkering pontoon.”

Last September the company said it had designed and developed the planned pontoon and said it was planned to have it operational in 2018.

Amsterdam-based Titan also supplies small-scale LNG to industrial customers in northwest Europe.

Mark Smedley