{"id":270089,"date":"2019-04-22T05:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T05:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=270089"},"modified":"2019-04-22T05:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T05:10:06","slug":"trumps-lng-push-is-helping-power-german-green-cruise-liner-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trumps-lng-push-is-helping-power-german-green-cruise-liner-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s LNG push is helping power German green cruise liner boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s bid to dump a glut of liquefied natural gas on Europe is getting an unlikely boost: stringent regulations on shipping emissions that are prompting the continent\u2019s shipyards to hunt for alternatives to high-polluting diesel. <\/p>\n<p>The International Maritime Organization will clamp down next year on sulfur and carbon emissions from diesel-powered ships. That\u2019s sparked a hunt for less-polluting fuels, with the global glut in LNG luring European cruise and non-cargo lines to turn to the fuel. And it\u2019s benefiting shipyards in Germany, home to the world\u2019s largest merchant navy fleet, which are tapping a booming cruise industry. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGermany can\u2019t make LNG cruise ships fast enough &#8212; we\u2019re top of the shop right now,\u201d said Ralf Soeren Marquardt, managing director of the VSM German shipbuilders federation, on the phone from Hamburg last week. \u201cSpecial shipbuilding in which Germany led for so long is getting a huge boost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s bid to dump a glut of liquefied natural gas on Europe is getting an unlikely boost: stringent regulations on shipping emissions that are prompting the continent\u2019s shipyards to hunt for alternatives to high-polluting diesel. The International Maritime Organization will clamp down next year on sulfur and carbon emissions from diesel-powered ships. That\u2019s sparked a hunt for less-polluting fuels, with the global glut in LNG luring European cruise and non-cargo lines to turn to the fuel. And it\u2019s benefiting shipyards in Germany, home to the world\u2019s largest merchant navy fleet, which are tapping a booming cruise industry. \u201cGermany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}