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The port of Bilbao carried out the first pilot test of liquefied natural gas supply from ship to ship.
It is the first operation of this kind that took place in the Atlantic arch and the Mediterranean.
LNG-fueled cement carrier, Ireland, received 90 cubic meters of the chilled fuel from the Oizmendi bunker vessel (formerly known as Monte Arucas) owned by ITSAS GAS company.

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