LNG terminalling company Elengy, shipping firm CMA CGM Group, EveRé, which operates a household waste treatment plant in Marseille, France, and energy major TotalEnergies are to jointly study the feasibility of a bio-LNG production and bunkering project in France’s Marseille-Provence region.
The facility would be the first bio-LNG production plant in France, where it will liquefy biomethane produced at EveRé’s waste treatment plant – the resulting bio-LNG will primarily be used in CMA CGM Group’s LNG-powered vessels leaving from the Grand Port Maritime in Marseille.
Elengy’s LNG terminals in Fos-sur-Mer will be used for the storage and delivery of the bio-LNG, while TotalEnergies’ bunker vessel, which will move to the port in January 2022, will be used for bio-LNG bunkering of CMA CGM’s ships.
The development of the bio-LNG facility will be led by the coalition. According to the partners, the circular economy project, using local household waste, will fit ‘perfectly’ into the local ecosystem, significantly improving air quality by reducing local air pollutants including nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides and particulates and supporting the energy transition in the shipping industry.
CMA CGM’s LNG-powered vessels run on its proprietary dual-fuel gas engine technology, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 67 percent compared to well-to-wake VLSFO for the complete value chain. For individual vessels, emissions are 88 percent lower compared to VLSFO. 44 of CMA CGM’s vessels will be powered by LNG by 2024.
CMA CGM, Engie and TotalEnergies have been part of the Coalition for the Energy of the Future for the past few months, working together to speed up development of future energy sources and technologies and to support new sustainable mobility models, whose aim of reducing the environmental impact of transport and logistics.
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