A handover date for the first LNG bunker barge ordered three years ago at a US shipyard has been delayed into the second half of this year.

TOTE executive vice president Peter Keller told TradeWinds that Clean Marine Energy’s 2,200-cbm Clean Jacksonville is likely to on site at its new base in Florida in early July.

Late last year, Keller said the barge would arrive at the end of the first quarter of 2018.