Spanish energy company Repsol is to create LNG bunker terminal in two ports to fuel a pair of Brittany Ferries ropax newbuildings.
Repsol said it will build single 1,000-cbm storage tanks in both Bilbao and Santander on the northern coast of Spain to supply LNG as bunker fuel to Brittany Ferries’ 42,400-gt Salamanca and Santona which will sail on the route from Portsmouth in the UK from their deliveries in 2022.
A spokesperson for Repsol told TradeWinds the ships will be supplied directly from the shoreside tanks.
The detail on the bunkering arrangements follows an agreement signed between the two companies in February over the supply of LNG to Brittany Ferries Spanish operations.
Brittany Ferries fleet and operations manager Frederic Pouget said: “These new terminals will allow regular, flexible and reliable deliveries during the calls of Salamanca and Santoña in our Spanish ports.”
Salamanca and Santona will be Brittany Ferries second and third LNG-fuelled vessels.
A company spokesman said that the company’s first newbuilding 42,000-gt Honfleur is due to be delivered at the end of this year and go into service on the Portsmouth-Caen route between the UK and France early in 2020.
The vessel, which has suffered a long delivery delay at German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, will be supplied with LNG as bunkers by Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions.
These volumes will be trucked from the Dunkerque LNG terminal in northern France and moved onboard the vessel in ISO containers.
