If there is one company that should know about small-scale LNG shipping and bunkering it is Dutch shipowner Anthony Veder.

The Rotterdam-based, privately-run owner has been in gas shipping for 50 years and made its break in LNG in 2006, when it ordered the 7,500-cbm Coral Methane (built 2009) against a charter with Gasnor.

Skip forward to 2019 and the Coral Methane has been converted to serve as an LNG bunker vessel (LNGBV) and is now fuelling cruiseships in the Mediterranean for new charterer Shell, which bought Gasnor in...