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Specifications Guide Global Bunker Fuels Latest update: November 2025

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Op-Ed: LNG is the Future of Shipping's Energy Transition

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Published Feb 15, 2026 7:35 PM by Peter Keller, Chairman of Sea-LNG

   

 

The maritime industry’s energy transition is no longer a distant ambition - it is a present-day reality.

What was all-too-recently framed as a future challenge to tackle with a “silver bullet” solution, is now an immediate operational fact, calling for continuing action across the maritime industry.

With LNG-powered vessels ordered in 2025 accounting for 79% of alternative-fueled tonnage, up from 67% in 2024, the LNG-powered global fleet both operating and on-order, including LNG carriers, today represents 10% of the global fleet by dead weight tonnage. From a niche solution used by vessels in Northern Europe and the Americas in 2016, today, LNG is a globally utilized mainstream marine fuel.

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Trump praises Greece's 'courage' for opposing net-zero shipping deal

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Athens broke ranks with the EU to help the White House sink a global agreement to cut emissions from maritime traffic

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Donald Trump lauded Athens on Wednesday for siding with Washington in its opposition to an International Maritime Organisation (IMO) mandate for clean shipping fuels – a politically sensitive matter that caused turmoil in Brussels last year.

“The US–Greece relationship is stronger than ever,” Trump said in a letter sent to the new Greek ambassador to Washington, highlighting progress Athens has made across a number of areas, including defence. “We appreciate Greece’s courage in abstaining on IMO’s adoption of the Net-Zero Framework.”

On energy, Trump was pleased with Greece’s decision to abstain from an IMO vote

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Three new LNG bunkering vessels enlarge Chinese player’s orderbook

 

 

 

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CIMC SOE has secured orders for two 20,000-cubic-meter LNG bunkering vessels and one 18,900-cubic-meter LNG bunker vessel, which are interpreted to strengthen the Chinese firm’s foothold in the clean energy vessel construction sector and demonstrate its sustained competitiveness in the international LNG bunker vessel market.

Currently, the firm’s orderbook for the 20,000-cubic-meter LNG bunker vessel model has reached a cumulative total of ten ships, while orders for the 18,900-cubic-meter LNG bunker vessel model now stand at three ships. The company is progressing steadily on the first type, maintaining a

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