The globe’s second biggest container delivery firm, CMA CGM, has actually authorized a Memorandum of Unserstanding with French power team ENGIE to advertise making use of melted gas as an aquatic gas.

The contract, which was authorized Wednesday at CMA CGM’s headquareters in Marseille, France, will certainly be focused about on a technological and also financial research on making use of LNG as a gas for future container ships. The research will certainly concentrate mainly on the growth of design requirements for a bunkering vessel adjusted especially to LNG-powered container ships.

The business really hope the research will certainly assist enhance gradually the logistics chain essential to sustain LNG-powered containerships in order to assist advertise their implementation.

Both CMA CGM and also ENGIE claim they think about making use of LNG as an aquatic gas increase in the future and also both mean to be energetic gamers in this growth.

“We are most pleased with this cooperation with CMA CGM, which is a leader of maritime transport at the international level,” commented Isabelle Kocher, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of ENGIE. “For ENGIE, natural gas is a key element in the energy transition. The Group is actively engaged in the development of the diverse uses of retail LNG, especially for transportation. Ultimately, LNG as marine fuel will lead to a massive reduction in pollutant emissions.”

For CMA CGM, the contract complete a research study program it released in 2011 to make even more environmentally-friendly huge capability container ships. The research study program has actually until now contained the growth of a twin gas (LNG and also gas oil) huge capability containership in collaboration with South Korean shipbuilder, DSME, which will certainly work as an evidence of idea and also has actually been accepted by category cultureBureau Veritas The 2nd component of the program targets at making a big capability containership making use of a consolidated gas and also heavy steam wind turbine system for power. The supposed “PERFECt” job was released in 2015 in collaboration with DNV GL, GTT, ABB, Caterpillar, and also OMT.

“Liquefied natural gas has many environmental advantages,” claims Farid Salem, Executive Officer of the CMA CGMGroup “It is undoubtedly the fuel of the future of the maritime shipping industry that will progressively substitute heavy fuel oil over the next few decades. CMA CGM wishes to be a pioneer in this area. And with the agreement with ENGIE this allows the company to move one step closer.”

Right currently ENGIE handles a big LNG supply profile and also has a substantial visibility in regasification terminals in Europe and also worldwide. In 2014, the ENGIE launched a collaboration with Mitsubishi Corporation and also NYK in LNG aquatic gas growth and also purchased the very first purpose-built LNG bunkering vessel out there. Delivery to their very first client is anticipated in very early 2017 at Zeebrugge,Belgium To go also additionally, last September the 3 teams released a joint brand-new brand name, Gas4Sea, providing a tidy, trusted, risk-free, and also affordable ship-to-ship supply of LNG for the maritime field.