China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) will shortly deliver to the French navigation company CMA CGM nine new LNG cargo ships, with capacity of 23.000 teu each. The ships, equipped with dual-fuel Wingd engines and with a tank of 18,600 cubic meters, are 400 meters long and 61 meters wide, and will serve the Europe-Asia route.
OMV, the main Austrian energy operator, has recently replaced 10% of its tanker fleet in Turkey with those powered by liquid natural gas as part of its sustainable and environmentally friendly growth approach, which traditionally use Diesel. OMV Turkey supplies LNG to around 400 customers in regions of the country out of reach of the pipelines.
IVECO, a brand of CNH Industrial NV and pioneer in the marketing and production of LNG-powered vehicles, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Plus, a leading company in the autonomous driving sector, to develop heavy vehicles that integrate the know-how of the two companies
The G7 which ended a few days ago confirmed the ambitious objectives that the democratic market economy countries have set for the containment of climate change by 2050. Trying to interpret the final statement and also the words of Prime Minister Draghi, the greatest attention is seems to have been given at the intermediate stage of 2030.
In the online meeting promoted by the University of Cagliari with the organizational support of the ConferenzaGNL last June 3, dedicated to the development of LNG as a fuel especially for maritime use but also for the methanisation of Sardinia, Corsica and evaluations on the Island of Elba, professor Giovanni Satta of the University of Cagliari has updated the data on the size of the fleet of LNG ships by 2027.
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