20SEP2019 - NEWS - LNG as fuel garners interest but still a long way to go

The use of LNG as a marine fuel for ships still has a long way to go before it can be commercially applied on a considerable scale globally, amid the shipping industry’s heightening interest in developing this clean fuel market.

LNG as a fuel for ships is one of the options for operators to comply with the upcoming IMO 2020 global fuel sulphur cap regulation, but it is also the least widely considered option as LNG bunkering is hardly a mature sector to handle the demands of seaborne trade.

“The Asian region is simply not LNG ready. The ease of LNG bunkering is just not there yet,” Hendrie Lee, market and business development at Singapore-based LNG Easy, told delegates at the Shipping 2030 Asia conference in Singapore, organised by KNect365 Maritime.