Maritimes

Major international shipping banks and financial institutions have launched a partnership to support climate change efforts to incentivize decarbonization in the maritime shipping industry.

A concerted push is underway across the globe to enhance the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine transportation fuel to reduce emissions and make use of an ever-increasing supply.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday approved plans by JAX LNG LLC to operate a second waterfront liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Florida to conduct ship-to-ship bunkering operations beginning next year.

FERC granted Spectra Energy affiliates Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC authorization Wednesday to construct and operate the Atlantic Bridge Project.

Atlantic Bridge, a project of Spectra Energy’s Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLP (M&NE) and Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC (AGT) would not cause significant harm to the environment with proposed and recommended mitigation measures, FERC staff said in an environmental assessment (EA).

Atlantic Bridge, a project of Spectra Energy’s Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLP (M&NE) and Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC (AGT) would not cause significant harm to the environment with proposed and recommended mitigation measures, FERC staff said in an environmental assessment (EA).

Repsol Energy North America Corp., the largest shipper on Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLP (M&NE), has told FERC that M&NE and affiliate Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC have failed to answer questions about how their Atlantic Bridge Project could affect existing M&NE shippers.

The world’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered containership, the Isla Bella, made its first journey through the Panama Canal on Oct. 30, just two weeks after shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO made delivery of the ship to owner TOTE Maritime (see Daily GPI,Oct. 19).

Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC on Thursday filed at FERC for their Atlantic Bridge Project, which would “provide much needed supply diversity and reliability in the Northeast markets,” they said.