French bunkering first

A 15,000 teu LNG-powered CMA CGM containership deployed on the MEX 1 service connecting Asia and South Europe has for the first time been refuelled by an LNG bunkering vessel.

”TotalEnergies is delighted to successfully complete Marseille’s first LNG bunkering operation of a containership via the Gas Vitality. Her deployment underscores the company’s commitment to support the French port’s ambition to be an LNG bunkering hub for the Mediterranean region,” said Jérôme Leprince-Ringuet, vice-president marine fuels at TotalEnergies.

Bunkering first

The Gas Vitality is the first LNG bunker vessel based in France and can transfer around 6,000m3 of LNG by means of a ship-to-ship transfer alongside the Eurofos container terminal. Bunkering is completed while the containership is simultaneously carrying out cargo operations.

Gas Vitality is TotalEnergies’ second chartered LNG bunker vessel and is owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd (MOL).

TotalEnergies is actively building LNG infrastructure to support its customers around the world.

Since November 2020, the company has been operating the 18,600-m³ Gas Agility at the Port of Rotterdam which completed the first LNG bunkering operation of the CMA CGM Jacques Saade, the largest dual-fuel LNG-powered containership in the world.

Together with the company’s second-chartered LNG bunker vessel, the Gas Vitality, Mr Leprince-Ringuet said that TotalEnergies is demonstrating its commitment to make LNG bunkering capabilities readily available in key European hubs.

In 2022, TotalEnergies commence operations of a third LNG bunker vessel to serve Singapore, where the Company has been awarded a LNG bunker supplier license for a five-year term starting in January 2022.

TotalEnergies is the world’s second largest publicly traded LNG player with a global portfolio of nearly 50 Mt/y by 2025 and a global market share of around 10%.