Busan Port demos Korea’s first simultaneous LNG bunkering and containership cargo handling operation

Busan New Container Terminal (BNCT) has successfully performed the first simultaneous operations (SIMOPS) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering and containership cargo loading and unloading in Korea on August 8 at Busan New Port Pier 5. 

The Blue Whale LNG bunkering vessel berthed alongside CMA CGM VISBY, which was berthed at Berth 1 of BNCT, and supplied about 270 tonnes of LNG by the ship-to-ship (STS) bunkering service. 

Simultaneously performing LNG bunkering operations with port loading and unloading operations is a core competitiveness of the project as it saves additional berthing time and costs in ports.