A pioneering first LNG bunker barge for US waters will start operations in early September, fuelling two containerships running between Florida and Puerto Rico.

TOTE executive vice president Peter Keller, whose company arm TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico is the charterer of the barge, told TradeWinds that the 2,200-cbm newbuilding Clean Jacksonville is due to arrive at its new home port of Jacksonville at the end of this week, after completing LNG trials in Louisiana.