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.
Expression of interest for construction of LNG bunkering facility in Naples port
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centrale (AdSP – Central Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
Reganosa supplies first European passenger train powered by LNG from Ferrol port terminal
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) January 7, 2018 – The first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has just been delivered by means of a truck to Asturias, a...
Barcelona port tenders technical assistance services for LNG promotion
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) has tendered the technical assistance services...
ENI to produce joint study on Genoa port LNG facility
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port...
Oristano issues go-ahead for the Edison natural gas storage depot
Oristano, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 27, 2017 – The authorisation process the coastal storage of Edison’s natural gas in the...
Galp carries out first LNG ship refuelling in an Atlantic island
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 22, 2017 – Galp Energia has completed, at the port of Funchal, Madeira, the first ever liquefied...
St.Nazaire port to receive Russian LNG
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) December 22, 2017 – The LNG terminal at St.Nazaire will soon start receiving vessels loaded with Siberian LNG. In...
EU provides €101.4 million for LNG terminal in Krk, Croatia
Pula, Croatia (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – INEA Director Dirk Beckers and Goran Frančić, Director of LNG Croatia LLC have signed a grant...
First ship connects to LNG-fuelled engine at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 16, 2017 – The first vessel has connected to an LNG-fuelled engine at Barcelona port which is part of effort to...
Gibraltar Port Authority Attends the 6th Mediterranean Bunker Fuel Conference
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – The Gibraltar Port Authority has attended the 6th Mediterranean Bunker Fuel conference in Athens, Greece. This...
Portuguese government aims to develop SInes port LNG capacity
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 30, 217 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, has reaffirmed the Government’s intention to make...
Cartagena port aims to play important role in LNG market
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) November 27, 2017 – Cartagena port aims to play an important role in the global expansion of the liquefied natural gas (LNG)...
AIDA Cruises to use LNG supply in Mediterranean ports
Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – AIDA Cruises, part of Carnival Corporation, announced that it will gradually start regular operations...
French government supports CMA CGM LNG fuel announcement
Paris, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – Nicolas Hulot, Ministre d’État, Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, and Élisabeth...
CMA CGM chooses LNG for its biggest ships
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – The French container shipper CMA CGM has announced that it will use engines using liquefied natural...
New success of Adriatic LNG’s Peak Shaving service procedure
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – The tender for the Peak Shaving service, organized by Adriatic LNG for the Ministry of Economic...
Ravenna holds public meeting to discuss proposed LNG facility
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) November 22, 2017 – On November 29, 2017, there was a second public meeting on the development of the project for the...
Gibraltar attends International Bunker Industry Association convention in Singapore
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – Gibraltar Port Authority CEO and Captain of the Port, Manuel Tirado, has attended the International Bunker...
Reganosa plans to be marine LNG supplier in Ferrol port region
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – The Spanish energy company Regasificadora del Noroeste S.A. (Reganosa) plans to supply says LNG as a...
Sojitz Corp purchases Mugardos LNG terminal near Ferrol port
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2107 – Japan’s Sojitz Corporation has acquired full ownership of First State Regasificadora S.L.U. (FSR),...