During the question-and-answer portionof a presentation at the Shipping 2014 conference in Connecticut one of the classificationsociety’s representatives identified Seattle as one of the most likely locationsfor an LNG bunkering operation in the region.

ABS pointed out that Pivitol LNG’sfacility in Jacksonville, Florida should be online around the same time andnoted Harvey Gulf International’s LNG fuel dock in the US Gulf is on track forcompletion later this year.

Initially,