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Brittany goes for gas in quest for low emissions


Ro ro operator Brittany Ferries has become the first ferry line in British waters to order a new vessel powered by liquified natural gas (LNG) on its routes from the UK to northern Spain. The €270 million (£225m) ship will be built by STX France in St Nazaire and will enter service in late spring 2017. She would be the first large LNG ferry to operate into a UK port. Brittany’s group freight director, Simon Wagstaff,


said the new ship would probably go into service on the Portsmouth to Santander route, and possibly to Bilbao too. However, with entry into


service not scheduled for three years, the exact deployment has not yet been finalised. However, she is expected to replace Brittany Ferries’ current flagship, Pont-Aven on some of its routes. The latter ship, which currently operates a complex routing involving Santander, Belbao, Portsmouth, Poole and even Ireland in summer, will move to the Portsmouth - St Malo route providing extra freight capacity. Ferry and short sea operators have been


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grappling with the problem of how to comply with tough new limits on sulphur emissions that come into force in the Channel and North Sea from 1 January 2015. These will force operators to convert or buy LNG-powered vessels, switch existing ships from heavy marine oil to more expensive diesel fuel or fit exhaust scrubbers to ships that continue to burn marine oil.


BIFA celebrates quarter century of excellence in freight


The British International Freight Association (BIFA) revealed the winners of its Freight Service Awards 2013 at a ceremony in London on 16 January presided over by BBC Countryfile presenter and noted long-distance walker, Julia Bradbury. The winners of the eight General and Modal


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categories of the Awards, which has established a benchmark of quality for the British freight forwarding industry for a quarter of a century, were:


Cardinal Maritime, Dachser, Damco UK, DSV Road, James Cargo Services, OHL


International, Spatial Global and Yusen Logistics. In the Individual category, the winner of the


Young Freight Forwarder Award was Phoebe Rockwood of Damco UK. IAG Cargo also received a special award in


light of the airline’s sponsorship of the Awards for the full 25 years since their inception. BIFA President Sir Peter Bottomley MP again


welcomed guests to the Awards luncheon ceremony and helped Julia Bradbury present the finalists with their certificates. See advertisment page 11 for full details.


LNG is seen as the most effective long-term solution, albeit an expensive one as few existing ships are suitable for


retrofitting.


Ferries says that LNG emits about 25% per cent less carbon dioxide than


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