Italy has clocked up its first LNG bunkering with an operation to supply a Costa Cruises vessel in the port of La Spezia.
The 183,900-gt newbuilding Costa Smeralda berthed at the port’s Molo Garibaldi pier and was supplied with bunkers in a bow-to-bow operation by the Shell-chartered, 7,500-cbm bunker vessel Coral Methane (built 2009).
The bunkering operation took place under the supervision of the Italian Coast Guard and was supported by the Port Authority of Eastern Ligurian Sea, local authorities, Carnival Corp's Costa Group and its LNG supplier partner Shell.
