The largest container ship in the world powered by liquefied natural gas docked in Singapore on Sunday, before loading up and heading onwards to Europe the next day.
At 400m long, the CMA CGM Jacques Saade, belonging to French shipping and logistics firm CMA CGM, is longer than four football fields, and is 78m tall and 61m wide.
Its voyage takes place despite challenges and disruptions caused by the pandemic, and embodies the resilience of the maritime industry and its efforts to address climate change, said Senior Minister of State for Transport and Foreign Affairs Chee Hong Tat on Monday.
The largest container ship in the world powered by liquefied natural gas docked in Singapore on Sunday (Oct 11), before loading up and heading onwards to Europe the next day.
At 400m long, the CMA CGM Jacques Saade, belonging to French shipping and logistics firm CMA CGM, is longer than four football fields, and is 78m tall and 61m wide.
Its voyage takes place despite challenges and disruptions caused by the pandemic, and embodies the resilience of the maritime industry and its efforts to address climate change, said Senior Minister of State for Transport and Foreign Affairs Chee Hong Tat on Monday.
The vessel will call at 13 ports in all over 84 days, including Busan in South Korea, Shanghai in China, Klang in Malaysia, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Dunkirk in France and Southampton in the UK.
Mr Stephane Courquin, head of CMA CGM in Asia and Oceania, said that LNG is the most advanced solution when it comes to preserving air quality today, and called it a "critical part of our energy transition strategy".
Compared with traditional marine fuel oil, LNG reduces sulphur and fine particles emission by 99 per cent, nitrogen dioxide emissions by 85 per cent and carbon dioxide emissions by up to 20 per cent, he explained.
Mr Courquin also announced that in the coming months, CMA CGM will have eight other similarly large ships joining its fleet. By 2022, it will have 20 LNG-powered vessels.
"As we move ahead with LNG, we are hopeful that there will be a wider adoption of LNG in the industry. This also means that the global LNG infrastructure must mature with supply sources in more parts of the world, so that it will be operationally viable for carriers," he said.
Singapore has been developing the infrastructure to support the use of LNG, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore has issued two LNG bunker supplier licences, with more to come in the coming weeks. (October 12, 2020)
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