Carnival Corporation has signed an agreement with Shell to be its supplier of marine liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power North America’s first fully LNG-powered cruise ships.
Under this agreement, Shell will supply Carnival Cruise Line, a unit of Carnival Corporation, with fuel for its two new LNG-powered ships expected to launch in 2020 and 2022 and be homeported in North America.
As part of the agreement, the two ships, built with next-generation ‘green cruising’ ship design, will be fuelled through Shell’s LNG Bunker Barge (LBB) – a project announced earlier this week as part of Shell’s strategic plan to develop a global LNG bunkering network. The ocean-going LBB, which is designed to support growing cruise line demand for LNG as a marine fuel, will be the first of its kind in the US and will allow these ships to refuel with LNG at ports along the southern US East Coast.
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