Gazprom has performed its first LNG bunkering in the port of Rostock

Gazprom Germania GmbH has carried out its first bunkering of a ship with liquefied natural gas at the port of Rostock, Germany.
In the early hours of the morning of February 27, 2016, a ship was fueled with LNG for the first time in the southern Baltic Sea. The bunkering took place at Germany’s largest Baltic Sea port. The ship bunkered was the M.V. Greenland, a cement carrier owned by the Norwegian shipping company KGJ Cement AS. The LNG was transported to Rostock by road tanker.
LNG is growing in importance across the marine shipping industry in the North and Baltic Seas amid the stricter environmental standards that entered into force in January 2015.
This was part of the reason why back in 2014 Gazprom Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rostock Port on cooperation in the LNG market. This cooperation focuses on the development, marketing, and use of LNG in road transport and marine shipping in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.