{"id":421,"date":"2019-09-19T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2019\/09\/19\/successful-first-bunkering-at-japanese-port\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:22:40","slug":"successful-first-bunkering-at-japanese-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/successful-first-bunkering-at-japanese-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful first bunkering at Japanese port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LNG-fuelled tugboat <em>Ishin, <\/em>owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and operated by Nihon-Tug-Boat Co., Ltd., underwent truck-to-ship bunkering at the Port of Kobe.<\/p>\n<p>LNG fuel for the trial was hauled by a tanker truck from the Himeji LNG Plant of Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. A truck-to-ship system was then used to supply <em>Ishin<\/em>, berthed at Kobe Port\u2019s Shinko Pier.<\/p>\n<p>MOL Marine Co., Ltd. also provided maritime consulting in the trial, which was organised by the Kobe City Port and Harbour Authority.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the January 2020 0.5% sulphur emissions regulation, an increasing number of LNG-fuelled vessels are coming into service, making the development of LNG bunkering ports in Japan an urgent task, said MOL.<\/p>\n<p>MOL Group companies are working together to promote the wider adoption of LNG fuel for vessels and reduce environmental impact through the safe operation of <em>Ishin<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese port\u2019s first LNG bunkering has been successfully carried out to confirm that LNG can be effectively and safely supplied there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}