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CMG CGM signs an agreement with ENGIE for feeding the large ones portacontainer with GNL
He has been undersigned today to Marseilles
October 19, 2016
The French shipowning group CMA CGM has signed an agreement with compatriot ENGIE centralized on the employment of which combustible the which liquified natural gas for the portacontenitori ships and previews the combined drawing up of a technical study and economic on it I use of such fuel and a study on the development of the progettuali detailed lists for the realization of lighters for the distribution of the GNL to the portacontainer.
The project comes abreast to the search program that the French shipowning group has begun in 2011 for the planning of portacontainer of large-capacity that anticipates reduced emissions, initiative in the within of which CMA CGM participates to two programs: first – activated in 2011 in collaboration with the navalmeccanica company South Korean DSME - for the duel-fuel development portacontainer with system of propulsion that can be fed with liquified natural gas or fuel oil, project that is approved of by the society of Bureau Veritas classification; according to program, started in 2015, it is face to the planning of great portacontenitori ships with a system of propulsion based on steam and gas turbines and is realized in collaboration with DNV GL, GTT, ABB, Caterpillar and OMT.
The understanding which signed today to Marseilles follows also the agreements that energetic group ENGIE (former GDF Suez) has signed in the 2014 and last month with the Japanese Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) for the construction of the first ship bunker for the liquified natural gas and in order to institute the new Gas4Sea brand for the distribution of the GNL to the ships ( on July 7, 2014 and 6 september 2016).
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