{"id":1900,"date":"2022-01-17T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2022\/01\/17\/french-lng-supply-widens\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:53:21","slug":"french-lng-supply-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/french-lng-supply-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"French LNG supply widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Titan LNG has secured the tender for the delivery of LNG and bioLNG at the port for Corsica Linea\u2019s new Ro-Pax LNG-fuelled ferry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpanding our operations to the Mediterranean region will enhance the availability of LNG and bioLNG,\u201d said&nbsp;Niels den Nijs, CEO, Titan LNG.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpanding infrastructure will help consolidate LNG as a leading sustainable marine fuel across the region. As a result, we hope to see more shipowners investing in LNG and bioLNG.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wider supply<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr&nbsp;den Nijs said that this&nbsp;partnership marks the significant expansion of Titan\u2019s operations into the Mediterranean which will enhance the availability of LNG, bioLNG and in the longer run, hydrogen-derived LNG in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Titan will start Truck-to-Ship operations for a period of time until the Krios vessel &#8211; a 4,500 cbm LNG bunker vessel &#8211; arrives that will be able to supply the wider Mediterranean region with LNG and bioLNG as a marine fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Corsica Linea\u2019s new LNG-fuelled ferry, A Galeotta, which is currently under construction at the Visentini shipyard in Italy, is set to begin sea trials in May 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since the vessel is designed to be powered by LNG, in future, it will be able to run on lower and zero carbon variations of LNG such as bioLNG and hydrogen-derived LNG with no changes required to the infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Having access to LNG and bioLNG infrastructure and bunkering will allow the operator to take a significant positive step towards the decarbonisation of its fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LNG refuelling at France\u2019s Port of Marseille just got easier\u00a0widening supply across the Med<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[248,183,245,246,244,141,247],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","tag-bio-lng","tag-lng","tag-lng-ferry","tag-mediterranean","tag-port-of-marseille","tag-short-sea","tag-totan-lng"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}