TotalEnergies starts LNG bunkering in Marseille
France's TotalEnergies has for the first time undertaken ship-to-containership LNG bunkering in the south French port of Marseille, the company reported on January 24.
The CMA CGM Bali, a 15,000-teu containership deployed on the MEX 1 service between Asia and south Europe, was refuelled by the Gas Vitality vessel with 6,000 m3 of the supercooled gas, TotalEnergies said. The refuelling took place at the same time as loading operations were underway.
"TotalEnergies is delighted to successfully complete Marseille's first LNG bunkering operation of a containership via the Gas Vitality," the company's vice president for marine fuels, Jerome Leprince-Ringuet said in a statement. "This landmark operation also demonstrates our continued support to the growing role of LNG in shipping's energy transition."
TotalEnergies launched its first LNG bunkering vessel in October 2019, primarily to refuel CMA CGM containerships. Gas Vitality is its second, and is stationed primarily at Marseille. The company shares the use of a third in Singapore.