WATCH: Peninsula supplies MSC containership with LNG in Gibraltar

Maritime fuel supplier Peninsula has delivered LNG to MSC Virginia containership, owned by shipping major MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, at the Gibraltar anchorage.

Peninsula’s first purpose-built 12,500 cubic meter LNG bunker vessel Levante LNG completed the LNG bunker supply to the MSC Virginia.

Using the Levante vessel, on November 4, 2023, Penninsula delivered LNG to Royal Caribbean’s cruise vessel Silver Nova, and on November 29-30, 2023, to Suezmax crude oil tanker Starway, owned by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS).

Commenting on the Starway bunkering operation, Nacho de Miguel, Peninsula’s Head of Alternative Fuels & Sustainability, said: “Through our investment in assets like the Levante LNG, we can close the supply chain loop to give these vessels access to lower-carbon fuels in the world’s leading ports.”

To remind, Peninsula secured an LNG bunkering operator license from the Government of Gibraltar and the Gibraltar Port Authority and brought Levante LNG to serve in the Strait of Gibraltar and Western Mediterranean ports in October 2023.