TGE Marine to supply fuel gas system for Sirius and Gasum LNG bunker vessel
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TGE Marine Gas Engineering on Thursday (25 April) announced its collaboration with Turkish shipbuilder RMK Marine on a new 7,800 m³ LNG bunker vessel, which was ordered by Sirius Shipping and Gasum.
The vessel Celsius will have TGE Marine’s Type C Bi-lobe tanks and a cargo handling and fuel gas system on board. The vessel will be used for servicing a variety of LNG fuelled vessels and accommodate the needs an LNG fuelled ship will have for efficient bunkering, gas freeing- and conditioning operations.
This project has been ongoing since summer of 2024, and TGE Marine’s Technical Sales Director Johannes Dziuba has been at the forefront of this project.
He said: “I am very happy that our close cooperation with RMK Marine has yielded us this project. We have previous experience working together with Sirius and we know that it will be a great vessel. Even more special for us, this is the first vessel we see being built in Turkey.”
“As we are using Type C tanks, these tanks can handle gases in high pressure and cryogenic conditions, which allows for the safe handling and efficient transport of LNG. All operations can be carried out with the utmost crew safety in mind.”
Jonas Backman from Sirius Shipping, said: “We are happy that we can work with TGE Marine again. We have had a successful previous collaboration since 2017 with TGE Marine from our Coralius vessel.”
Jakob Nielsen, Sales Director, adds: “We are very excited and proud to be selected for the Sirius’ and Gasum’s new vessel! It is a great achievement for TGE Marine, and we believe this will be the start of a very good relationship and developing a strong position for building LNG Bunker vessels in Europe.”
“This will also play a very important part of the much-needed infrastructure for the rapid growing LNG fuelled shipping fleet in the Baltic Sea and Kattegat Sea.”
Manifold Times previously reported Gasum announcing it has chartered a new LNG and bio-LNG bunker vessel that will serve Gasum’s customers starting 2027.
The new vessel, to be named Celsius, will enable Gasum to fulfil its strategic ambition to increase LNG and bio-LNG availability in the Northwestern European maritime market.
Celsius will be owned by a Joint Venture between Gasum and Swedish shipping company Sirius Shipping.
Related: Gasum to charter new LNG bunker vessel to serve Northwestern European market
Photo credit: TGE Marine
Published: 29 April, 2025
