ECSA: EU watering down LNG network

Secretary General of the European shipowners, Patrick Verhoeven, says that the proposal for an LNG network in European ports has been watered down significantly with a postponed deadline.
BY KATRINE GRØNVALD RAUN

With the sulphur regulations coming in 2015, shipowners operating in Northern Europe are in dire need of alternative fuel, but hopes for decisive action from the EU in terms of the much-discussed LNG network have been shattered, says Secretary General of the  European Community of Shipowners' Associations, Patrick Verhoeven.

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