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LNG

Port activities linked to liquefied natural gas (LNG). Includes imports, storage and regasification facilities and considered a key activity in European Union (EU) energy transition. Currently, this is topical as the EU seeks to urgently diversify energy sources and eliminate energy imports from Russia. This is realised in the construction of a number of LNG terminals around the EU, including Italy and Germany.

Supply of LNG to ships in Spanish ports increases dramatically in the first half of 2019

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 8, 2019 – Operations to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a fuel for ships in Spanish ports in the first half of...

Totisa Holdings to build LNG facility at Las Palmas port

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2019 – Las Palmas port authority plans a contract with Totisa Holdings SA for the construction and operation of...

Spain’s Asocelpa proposes procedures to coordinate bunkering at Las Palmas port

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 17, 2019 – The Association of Consignees and Stevedores of Ships of Las Palmas (Asocelpa) has raised a proposal to...

Huelva port completes first truck to ship bunkering operation

Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) June 17, 2019 – The first operation of bunkering of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from truck to ship in the port of...

Valenciaport Foundation and Baleària in the framework of the LNGHIVE2 Green & Smart Links project

News Release – Valenciaport and Baleària become a European benchmark for the energy transition to LNG – June 14, 2019 This morning the...

Poseidon Med II: 2020 & beyond, Unfolding the LNG supply chain

Press release – “Unfolding the LNG supply chain in Eastern Mediterranean” – The outcomes of Poseidon Med II event in Limassol on June 11, 2019...

Malta Freeport hosts its first LNG-powered container ship

News – Malta Freeport hosts its first LNG-powered container ship – June 11, 2019 Malta Freeport Terminals welcomed the first ever LNG-powered...

Venice LNG project gets environmental approval

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 10, 2019 – Italian company Venice LNG SpA has received a favourable ruling on the environmental compatibility of the LNG...

Shell’s Gasnor opens LNG facility in Gibraltar

Gibraltar (PortSEurope) May 8, 2019 – Gasnor, a Norwegian natural gas company and subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has announced the opening of a new...

Italy to examine authorisation for Chioggia port LPG storage complex

Chioggia, Italy (Ports Europe) May 1, 2019 – The study that led to the signing of the inter-ministerial authorisation decree in May 2015 for the Punta...

Cádiz port welcomes first cruise powered by liquefied natural gas

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) May 1, 2019 – The port of Cádiz has received the first cruiser powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), the AIDANova vessel,...

Barcelona port handles its first LNG-fired cruise ship

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Barcelona port handled on April 26 its first cruise ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), the...

Puertos del Estado president opens CORE LNGas hive project conference

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina and the president...

Algeciras port to host III Conference of CORE LNGas Project Hive project

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2019 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, accompanied by the...

Puertos del Estado backs Gijón port’s regasification plant project

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – The new president of national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, has reiterated the...

Bilbao port’s LNG regasification plant increases output in 2018

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Bahía de Bizkaia Gas (BBG), owner of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification plant located in Bilbao...

CMA CGM signs two strategic agreements with China State Shipbuilding Corporation

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 27, 2019 – Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping...

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