Several companies, including Danish containership giant AP Moller-Maersk, are engaging in discussions about the supply of LNG as marine bunkers in the Mediterranean region, prompting fresh enquiries about LNG bunker vessels.

Brokers said Maersk is being linked to a project to provide a 12,000-cbm LNG bunker vessel (LNGBV) that could supply LNG as a fuel to boxships from Spain, with some suggesting a tender has been issued.