A. Tsimplakis
Supplying merchant vessels with LNG for their fuel needs - bunkering - is a pending priority for DES.FA, Greece’s natural gas transmission system operator.
According to the natgas utility’s director of corporate development, Iosif Florentin, who spoke recently at a roundtable discussion organized by the Hellenic Institute of Maritime Technology (ELINT), the first facility for supplying LNG as a fuel aboard vessels will be based at the current LNG terminal on the islet of Revythoussa, which lies just off the port of Piraeus and the adjacent industrial districts.
He said the facility can currently supply vessels that are larger than 20,000m3.
“By the end of 2018 an international tender will be declared for the construction of a new jetty II, which will exclusively serve vessels between 1,000 and 20,000m3, along with the addition of a smaller appendage and bollards to allow the supply of LNG to even smaller craft from the current jetty,” he said.
