FURE VEN, a dual-fuel vessel owned and operated by Swedish chemical tanker operator Furetank, has become the first non-US flagged vessel to bunker LNG in a US port, building confidence in the case for LNG as an attractive solution for international trading vessels in the country.
US-based LNG bunker supplier Eagle LNG Partners also became the first company to deliver LNG bunker fuel to a foreign-flagged vessel.
The milestone took place at the Port of Jacksonville’s (JAXPORT) Talleyrand Marine Terminal, on 1st September. Eagle LNG Partners safely transferred 225 metric tonnes of LNG to the 18,000 DWT vessel from their on-site storage facility, with the bunkering evolution taking less than seven hours to complete. The tanker was laden with renewable diesel cargo for Preem, the largest petroleum and biofuels company headquartered in Sweden.
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Meanwhile, GAC Group assisted all parties by broking the LNG fuel and providing ship agency services to the vessel during its voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. It was the first time that GAC’s Bunker Fuels division had secured a deal to supply LNG as a marine fuel.
LNG as a marine fuel is considered one of the key solutions for shipping industry to comply with stringent environmental regulations, including the 2020 sulphur cap.
FURE VEN is one of Furetank’s V-Series, a new generation of product & chemical tankers introduced in 2018, which leverage LNG to deliver a fuel reduction of approximately 40%. These climate-smart vessels have also achieved substantial reductions in emissions – 55% less CO2, 86% less NOx, 99% less SOx, and 99% less PM – compared to vessels of the same size, of earlier designs.
According to a study from the Swedish Environmental Research Institute in 2017, the reductions by FURE VEN during this voyage alone are an economic saving for the global community of more than $200,000, thanks to a reduction in the negative impacts of air pollution. If liquefied biogas was bunkered, then CO2 emissions would be eliminated completely.
We note with pleasure that LNG bunkering is becoming available in more and more places, not least the U.S., and we are confident that investing in the V-series particularly contributes to a cleaner environment worldwide,
…said Lars Höglund, CEO of Furetank.
