Gasum selected as LNG supplier for Norwegian Fjord1 ferries
Gasum will supply fuel to four ferries sailing a daily route near Stavanger.Energy company Gasum and Norwegian ferry operator Fjord1 have signed a long-term agreement on the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a group of ferries operating the daily Arsvågen–Mortavika route connecting Stavanger and Haugesund along E39. The agreement covers fuel supply for four main ferries and one backup ferry.
“We are very pleased that Fjord1 has selected Gasum as its LNG supplier for this important ferry route. The agreement underlines our ability to provide reliable LNG deliveries for demanding
The agreement supports Gasum’s long-term strategic ambition to be a reliable partner in the energy transition.Gasum has secured LNG terminal capacity at the Klaipeda LNG terminal in Lithuania for the period 2033–2040. The long-term capacity reservation supports Gasum’s ability to supply the Northwestern European market with liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) over the coming decade.
The Klaipeda terminal has been a part of Gasum’s supply chain for some time already. Gasum uses the Klaipeda terminal primarily as a reloading point for its own carrier and bunker
A notable driver behind the development has been the FuelEU Maritime regulation that came into force last year.Gasum has seen a significant increase in maritime liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) sales over the last year. The share of biomethane out of all gas volumes sold to Gasum’s maritime customers increased from 0.8% in 2024 to 12.3% in 2025.
The development marks a notable step forward and provides a clear indication that the maritime sector is advancing its green transition.
“This is a very positive development that clearly shows the viability of the methane pathway in
The companies reinforce their long partnership and commitment to developing sustainable maritime transport on the Baltic Sea.Nordic energy company Gasum and shipping company Wasaline have extended their agreement for bio-LNG supply to continue through 2027. This agreement continues to strengthen the companies’ long-standing partnership.
It also underlines both companies' commitment to developing cleaner maritime transport. Wasaline runs a carbon neutral shipping corridor between Finland and Sweden, as the company’s vessel Aurora Botnia uses batteries and biogas to operate the route.
Pooling is an easy way to gain regulation compliance and save on penalties, but available capacity may run out before the end of the yearEnergy company Gasum and shipping company Wallenius Sol have signed a co-operation agreement whereby Wallenius Sol’s dual fuel vessels join Gasum’s FuelEU Maritime pool as compliance generators. The vessels will generate compliance surplus for the benefit of other vessels by running on bio-LNG.
Wallenius Sol operates regular scheduled services between several ports in northern Finland and Sweden, Germany, the Benelux region and the United Kingdom. The
Two Anthony Veder vessels join Gasum’s compliance pool as surplus generators.Nordic energy company Gasum and gas shipping company Anthony Veder are expanding their partnership to meet FuelEU Maritime requirements and drive emission reductions at sea. Two Anthony Veder LNG carriers that are chartered by Gasum, Coral Energy and Coral EnergICE, will be sailing on bio-LNG, contributing compliance surplus to Gasum’s FuelEU Maritime pool. Anthony Veder is also joining Gasum’s FuelEU Maritime pool with more ships from their fleet, providing the opportunity to secure regulation compliance.
“We
The collaboration enables a substantial increase in compliance supply as demand for FuelEU Maritime pooling heats up towards the end of the year.Viking Line has started to run it’s two ro-ro vessels Viking Glory and Viking Grace on bio-LNG in order to generate compliance for Gasum’s FuelEU Maritime (FEUM) pooling service. This move is based on the Letter of Intent (LOI) that Viking Line and Gasum signed at the end of 2024 on developing the pooling collaboration.
Viking Grace and Viking Glory both sail daily between the Finnish Port of Turku and Swedish City of Stockholm transporting
Wasaline’s vessel sailing between Finland and Sweden will run solely on Gasum’s liquefied biogas going forward.Nordic energy company Gasum and Finnish shipping company Wasaline have agreed that Gasum will provide only liquefied biogas (bio-LNG) to Wasaline’s vessel Aurora Botnia going forward. The vessel transports passengers and freight daily across the Baltic Sea between the port of Vaasa in Finland and the port of Umeå in Sweden.
This move to using only fossil free fuel is made possible by Wasaline’s agreement to generate FuelEU Maritime compliance for one of Europe's leading ferry
Gasum will bunker Hapag-Lloyd’s container vessels with a total amount of 20,000 mt of bio-LNG during 2025–2026.Energy company Gasum is collaborating with Hapag-Lloyd to supply their container vessels with liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) during a two-year tender period. Earlier this year, Hapag-Lloyd, one of the world’s leading container shipping companies, won the first tender by the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA) for ocean shipping based on waste-based bio-LNG that achieves at least a 90
Gasum is collaborating with Equinor on a series of liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) bunkering operations in the Port of Dusavik, Stavanger. Gasum is bunkering ISCC-EU certified mass balanced bio-LNG to Equinor’s chartered platform supply vessel Island Crusader.The first bio-LNG delivery was successfully carried out mid-July. Gasum will continue to supply Island Crusader with 2–3 truckloads of bio-LNG approximately every other week. Each truckload contains about 22 tons of bio-LNG.
Both Gasum and Equinor are committed to ambitious sustainability goals to enable a cleaner energy future.
Gasum Portfolio Services will manage shipping company Wasaline’s EU Allowances (EUA) portfolio. The EU emissions trading system has included the maritime sector since the beginning of this year. Outsourcing their emissions trading and EUA portfolio allows shipping companies to both manage and predict their costs.Wasaline has chosen Gasum Portfolio Services as their partner in EU Allowances (EUA) portfolio management. Managing and trading emissions allowances is topical for shipping companies as the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) was extended to include the maritime sector at the
Gasum, Pavilion Energy and CNOOC Gas and Power Group have signed an agreement for strategic collaboration to strengthen the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker supply network for their customers in the world’s top three bunkering regions: Singapore, North-West Europe (including Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp), as well as China coastal areas.The agreement will allow the three parties to leverage on one another’s local expertise, strong logistics capabilities, and in-depth experience in LNG bunkering operations to bring ease, efficiency, and operational flexibility across global
Chantiers de l’Atlantique has chosen Gasum as expert supplier of LNG bunker fuel and technical adviser to perform the initial bunkering of the first LNG fueled cruise vessel built in its premises. This first LNG bunkering has taken place on the 10th of September 2022 in the French port of La Rochelle, for which it was also the first LNG bunkering operation. The choice of Gasum as partner in the preparation and performance of this state-of-the-art delivery recognizes Gasum’s unique expertise in supporting shipyards performing initial bunkerings of newbuild LNG fueled cruise vessels.The
The Nordic energy company Gasum has obtained a distribution license for liquified natural gas (LNG) on the Belgian market. The distribution license allows Gasum to expand its supply network and guarantees safe and high-quality deliveries of LNG to customers bunkering in Belgium.Gasum expands the outreach and quality of its maritime LNG offering and further improve the service to its shipping customers. As part of this strategy, Gasum has now obtained a license to deliver LNG for maritime customers in Belgium.
The new LNG distribution license obtained on March 17, 2022, will allow Gasum
Gasum extends its bunkering services in the Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam region (ARA area), by locating its bunkering vessel Kairos in the area. This supports Gasum’s strategy to expand its maritime services in Northwest Europe.Gasum is extending its services in the Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam region by locating its bunkering vessel Kairos to the area. Previously Kairos has been operating flexibly in the North Sea and Baltic Sea and only arrived in the ARA area upon request.
The new location of Kairos enables Gasum to deliver bunkers of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the
On 24th September, in the port of Le Havre, France, Gasum bunkered Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to Le Commandant Charcot, PONANT’s latest LNG fueled newbuilt polar explorer. This operation marked Gasum’s first LNG delivery in France and also the first LNG bunker operation in the port of Le Havre.The energy company Gasum has delivered LNG as maritime fuel to the French luxury cruise operator La Compagnie du PONANT (PONANT) in Le Havre, France. The LNG was delivered to PONANT ’s newly built polar explorer Le Commandant Charcot in its inaugural call to a French port on the 24th of September
The energy company Gasum has won the framework agreement in a competitive tendering process organized by the Finnish government central purchasing body, Hansel Ltd. Gasum will supply liquefied natural gas (LNG), to the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and the Finnish Border Guard for 2021-2022 as set forth in the framework agreement. The framework agreement has two years additional option. LNG as a marine fuel meets the current as well as future emission limits."Our well-functioning cooperation with Gasum will continue. Our competitive tendering process has helped achieve a framework
Gasum performs two biogas deliveries for the Finnish Border Guard. One delivery from Risavika in Norway and another from the Turku biogas plant, in Finland. The purpose of these deliveries is to test logistics and practicalities on board as well as demonstrate biogas as a renewable energy source in maritime transport.Gasum begins test deliveries of liquefied biogas (LBG) for the Finnish Border Guard. The deliveries from Gasum’s plant in Risavika, Norway and the biogas plant in Turku, Finland to Helsinki will demonstrate liquefied biogas (LBG) as a fossil-free and 100% renewable fuel suited
Nordic energy company Gasum has entered into an agreement with the City of Vaasa, NLC Ferry Oy and Wärtsilä Finland Oy to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Wasaline, which operates the Vaasa-Umeå ferry route, and for use in Wärtsilä’s new Smart Technology Hub. Gasum is to build a local LNG customer terminal in Vaskiluoto from where tanker trucks will take LNG to customer sites.Gasum is to build a customer terminal in Vaskiluoto in Vaasa, from where the company will flexibly supply LNG to cargo and passenger shipping company Wasaline’s new LNG-fueled ferry M/S Aurora Botnia, which will
On July 27th, the Nordic energy company Gasum has conducted the first truck-to-ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering operation in Germany. Gasum delivered LNG to the world’s first LNG-fueled research vessel ATAIR. ATAIR is currently under construction at Fassmer shipyard in Berne/Motzen in Germany.
ATAIR is the world’s first LNG-fueled research vessel. The vessel will enter into service in 2020 and will replace the old ATAIR, commissioned in 1987. Fassmer was awarded the contract to build the ship for the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), which will use the
Gasum’s new bunkering station for liquefied gas was taken into use in mid-June. The station is located at Port of Nynäshamn, Sweden on the premises of Ports of Stockholm. The new station includes new bunkering solutions enabling ships to bunker environmentally friendly fuel faster than ever.After a year of construction, the new bunkering station is finally ready to serve existing and new customers. It enables bunkering at high speed from two trucks at the same time. The station set-up and the specialized trucks now being used allows bunkering to take place at the same time as unloading or
Gasum has partnered up with Samskip, a Rotterdam-based shipping company. The company owns two single fuel vessels Samskip Kvitbjorn and Samskip Kvitnos powered entirely by liquefied natural gas (LNG).The partnership with Gasum allows Samskip to bunker LNG in Risavika, Norway. As Gasum’s LNG-plant is located just 200 meters from the quayside, fresh and cold LNG can be bunkered swiftly and safely directly from the plant through a loading arm. Gasum is also supporting Samskip’s door-to-door-logistics on land and at sea.“Bunkering LNG in Risavika is a great asset to us and vastly improves our
On May 6th, Hamburg based LNG supplier Nauticor, a subsidiary of the Nordic energy company Gasum, has conducted the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation for a product tanker in Germany. The bunkering operation for the product tanker “Ramelia” was conducted in the port of Brunsbüttel at the river Elbe. The operation also marked another milestone with it being the first bunkering operation since the company became a part of Gasum at April 30, 2020. The receiving vessel “Ramelia” is owned by Donsö based shipowner Älvtank and is managed by the tanker pool of the Gothia Tanker Alliance. Like