First LNG bunkering at Lithuanian port

Cryo Shipping’s LNG-filled ISO container was hoisted onto a Baltkonta UAB tow truck and transported to the Malku Bay terminal at the Port of Klaipeda. Here, 45 cubic metres were transferred from the ISO container to the MV Greenland cement carrier with the help of LNG terminal operator Klaipėdos Nafta (KN)

Nicholai H. Olsen, director of Cryo Shipping, said: “We are very grateful for all the help we have received from all the countries involved in this operation. We hope that Klaipeda will become an important LNG bunkering port in the future, and Cryo Shipping will support and promote this goal.”

Cryo Shipping plans to acquire an LNG bunkering vessel, which would also carry out bunkering in Klaipeda Port.

After the bunkering of the ship, the ISO container of LNG gas purchased by Cryo Shipping from Ignitis UAB was filled at a CNG onshore LNG distribution station. Greenland will be bunkered in Klaipeda again this month.

Darius Šilenskis, CEO of KN, said that the bunkering process was complicated by the fact that there is no legislation regulating LNG bunkering in Lithuania today.

“The initial document regulating LNG bunkering in the port will be the Port Shipping Rules, which are being revised by the entire LNG bunkering community,” he said.

However, he added: “The emergence of new LNG transport and bunkering vessels increases the competitiveness and availability of the region’s LNG market and facilitates more efficient use of the LNG infrastructure created in Klaipeda.”