Cruiseship operator Carnival Corp is in talks with a number of LNG suppliers for its first US-based LNG-fuelled newbuildings and will likely require a bunker vessel to serve the fleet.

Tom Strang, senior vice-president maritime affairs at Carnival, explains to TradeWinds that no deployment details have been announced yet for the first two 183,200-gt, 5,000-passenger ships being built for the US market.

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