Seaboard Marine vessel completes LNG bunkering at Port of Miami

According to US-based shipping company Seaboard Marine, this is the first time that a cargo vessel has been bunkered with liquified natural gas (LNG) at the Port of Miami.

PHOTO: Seaboard Marine’s cargo vessel completes LNG bunkering at the Port of Miami. Seaboard Marine

Shell supplied the LNG, to fuel the vessel's inaugural voyage from Honduras to Guatemala in Central America.

The 1,000-twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) vessel, Seaboard Blue, has been recently acquired by Seaboard Marine. It will be part of the company's North Central America service.

The vessel was retrofitted in 2017 to run on both LNG and diesel, Seaboard says.

Seaboard claims it to be the “world’s first container ship” converted from diesel propulsion to LNG.

By Konica Bhatt

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