The first Russian small-scale LNG refueling vessel, with a capacity of 5,800 cubic meters, has completed sea trials and is expected to join Gazprom Neft's fleet in the second half of this year. The ship will operate mainly in the Baltic Sea for ship to ship supplies at the ports of St. Petersburg, Ust-Luga and Primorsk.
After the experimentation of four LNG vehicles started in 2020, the Cidiu Group of environmental hygiene, which takes care of the collection and treatment of the waste of 13 municipalities (258 thousand resident citizens) in the north-west area of Turin, has another 13 arriving liquid methane vehicles.
European projects or not, the maritime cargo market seems to have made its choice, at least until 2030 (but probably beyond) for LNG. So has the cruise market for some years now. It is no coincidence that this is happening at a time when supply is now guaranteed on the world's main routes.
Italy's Gas and Heat has contracted to supply the LNG tank and fuel handling system for a tanker barge owned by Knutsen Scale Gas, which will lease the barge to Shell Spain. Genoese shipowner Fratelli Cosulich has ordered an 8,000 cubic metre LNG tanker, with a 500 cubic metre marine diesel reserve, from Chinese shipyard CIMC SOE for ship-to-ship bunkering operations.
The "news of the day" was supposed to be the role of small scale LNG in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) but in the very latest version the topic was expunged.
A few days earlier, the sale of Iveco to Faw Jiefang, the largest Chinese manufacturer of heavy trucks, failed.
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