Largest American LNG bunker vessel advances small-scale expansion

摘要

America's third and largest LNG bunker vessel yet will enter service by the end of 2021, joining a growing LNG bunkering infrastructure in the US, underpinning the expanding global and US LNG-fuelled fleet. Based on an articulated tug barge (ATB) unit design, Clean Canaveral is being built at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin for Polaris New Energy (PNE). Plans call for PNE to operate the vessel supplying LNG as fuel to vessels on the US east coast for NorthStar Midstream, owner of Polaris New Energy. A veteran of the US tug and barge market, Northstar Midstream senior vice president Tim Casey is responsible for overseeing PNE and NorthStar Midstreams partnership with Berkshire Hathaway in JAX LNG, a small-scale LNG facility in Jacksonville, Florida. Sourcing LNG at JAX LNG, PNE intends to use Clean Canaveral to deliver LNG north and south from Jacksonville to ports like Port Canaveral, Miami, and to other ports up the Atlantic coast.