North America’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker barge will be launched at the beginning of February 2016.
The barge, which is currently under construction at Conrad Shipyard in Orange Texas, is to be fitted with a 20m bunker mast that will enable the barge to service a wide variety of ships.
Designed by Bristol Harbour Group and classified by ABS, the vessel will also be equipped with six DH Industries SirtLNG-4 cryocoolers sized to handle 125% of the vessel’s boil-off gas. Other systems that have been designed specifically for the ship’s LNG bunkering system are also included to help deliver the coldest LNG to the end user.
The barge will service TOTE’s newbuild Marlin class LNG-fuelled container ships and other LNG-fuelled vessels in and around the Port of Jacksonville, Florida.
The barge will be delivered to Jacksonville in the third quarter of 2016.
