Kota Eagle, which was on her maiden voyage, is the first vessel in PIL’s fleet to be powered by LNG. Following the bunkering, she went to Ningbo and departed on PIL’s West Coast Central and South America Service 2 route.
Pacific International Lines (PIL) and bunkering supplier Shanghai SIPG Energy Service (SSES) successfully completed the inaugural Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunkering of PIL’s first LNG-powered container vessel, Kota Eagle (139,136gt), in October 2024.
The ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation was conducted at the Yangshan port in Shanghai, and involved the brand-new 14,000TEU container ship Kota Eagle receiving about 8,000m3 of LNG from the Hai Gang Wei Lai bunkering vessel.