By Joshua Stein

Total SE and shipping-services company CMA CGM said Monday that they completed their planned liquefied natural gas bunkering project in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands last week.

The two French companies bunkered around 17,300 cubic meters of LNG, making the operation the largest of its kind in history, they said.

The LNG supply was provided by Total's business unit Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions.

The use of LNG as fuel for ships allows companies to eliminate almost all the air pollutants produced in fossil fuel combustion, including 99% of sulphur oxide emissions and up to 85% of nitrogen oxide emissions, according to Total and CMA CGM. A vessel powered by LNG also produces up to 20% less carbon dioxide than conventional fuel-powered systems.

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