{"id":5064,"date":"2014-03-03T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2014\/03\/03\/construction-of-first-lng-containership-begins\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:44:11","slug":"construction-of-first-lng-containership-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2014\/03\/03\/construction-of-first-lng-containership-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of \u2018first\u2019 LNG containership begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOTE Inc\u2019s new Marlin Class will reduce sulphur dioxide emissions by 98%, particulate matter by 99%, nitrous and carbon dioxide by 71% over TOTE\u2019s vessels currently operating in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese ships will be the most advanced, environmentally progressive vessels of their kind,\u201d said Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Subcommittee, Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also represent US$350m in US investment, 600 American shipyard jobs, and the bright future of the indispensable domestic maritime industry,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins, which will home port in Jacksonville, Florida, will enter service in late 2015 and early 2016.<\/p>\n<p>LNG for the containerships will be provided by Pivotal LNG and WesPac Midstream, who TOTE recently entered into an agreement with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the world\u2019s \u2018first\u2019 LNG-powered containership began at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5066,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions\/5066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}