Gasum delivers LNG stem in Hamburg

Finnish gas supplier Gasum has completed the LNG bunkering of MSC Cruises’ cruise ship in Hamburg, Germany.

PHOTO: Gasum’s bunker vessel Kairos delivered LNG to MSC Cruises’ cruise ship MSC Euribia in Hamburg last week. Gasum

MSC Cruises is the cruise-arm of the Geneva-headquartered Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).

Last week, the Finnish gas supplier bunkered MSC Cruises’ cruise vessel, MSC Euribia, with an undisclosed amount of LNG in the German port of Hamburg. The bunkering operation was carried out by Gasum’s LNG bunkering vessel, Kairos.

The operation marked Gasum’s first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering of a cruise vessel in Hamburg, Gasum claims.

In the same week, Gasum bunkered Dutch maritime firm Van Oord’s LNG-fuelled dredger Vox Ariane with an undisclosed amount of LNG in Hamburg.

“These operations eventually put Hamburg on the map of the ports offering LNG bunkering to the shipping industry, opening to the full decarbonization potential of LNG,” Grégoire Hartig, a marine LNG sales and business development executive at Gasum, says.

LNG can curb carbon dioxide emissions by about a quarter compared to conventional bunker fuels. But its methane emissions can be 36 times more potent as a GHG compared to carbon dioxide over a century, according to a World Bank study.

By Tuhin Roy

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