Cargo Business News: Just in Time: LNG Propulsion Coming of Age

24 Nov 2015: “According to a recent paper, “LNG as Marine Fuel,” by Frederick Adamchak, LNG advisor at Poten & Partners, LNG has been used to fuel diesel propulsion systems of LNG vessels since delivery of the Provalys in 2006. “Today 48 existing LNG ships operate with dual fuel and tri-fuel diesel electric propulsion, he wrote, and another 85 LNG ships are on order. ‘In view of the proven success of LNG as a fuel in marine diesel engines, ship owners have already constructed an estimated 30 LNG fueled ships and have ordered more than 30 additional LNG fueled ships.’ “Thus, given the potential advantages of LNG as a bunker fuel and the pace of recent developments, ‘the probability of LNG displacing oil as the preferred fuel will continue to increase.'”