Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (‘K’ Line), along with JERA, Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), and other partners, collaboratively operates an LNG bunkering business for LNG-fuelled vessels in the Chubu region through joint venture companies Central LNG Shipping Japan Corporation and Central LNG Marine Fuel Japan Corporation.
Around four years after the launch of the business operation, the LNG bunkering vessel Kaguya, owned by the joint venture achieved its 100th ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation in Mikawa Bay.
The joint venture is striving to expand its bunkering service to meet increasing demand of LNG as marine fuel in the Chubu region, arising from ever-growing global fleet of LNG-fuelled vessels including ‘K’ Line’s Century Highway Green, an LNG-fuelled car carrier. By promoting the use of LNG as marine fuel through this project, ‘K’ Line hopes to contribute to reducing environmental load.
‘K’ Line has set a 2030 interim target of improving CO2 emissions efficiency by 50% compared with 2008, surpassing the IMO target of a 40% improvement, and aims for net zero by 2050.
Image: LNG bunker vessel ‘Kaguya’ achieves 100th ship-to-ship LNG supply (source: ‘K’ Line)
