News / French consortium to study waste-to-BioLNG energy to power CMA CGM ships

French carrier CMA CGM has announced it is collaborating in plans to build a BioLNG plant in Marseille Port to service the 44 LNG-powered vessels that will be in its fleet by 2024.

A consortium of companies will develop a circular economy project that will use household waste to develop methane rich BioLNG.

They will use a waste processing plant commissioned by the municipality of Aix Marseille-Provence from EveRé, a subsidiary of Spain’s Urbaser Group, itself a subsidiary of China Tianying Inc.

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