LNG as marine fuel has a proven safety record with well-established standards, guidelines and operating protocols.
The bulk LNG transportation industry, where LNG is commonly used as a fuel for the transporting vessel, has an excellent safety record.
Over the past 60 years, more than 120,000 commercial LNG cargoes have been safely delivered without any major safety incidents in port or at sea. This is testament to the LNG industry’s rigorous design guidelines for both ships and shore facilities, as well as high standards of training and operations.
The use of LNG as a marine fuel outside the LNG carrier business is a relatively new use of the fuel, as well as gas-only and dual-fuelled engines. However, since its introduction in Europe as a marine fuel at the turn of the century, LNG-fuelled vessels and associated bunkering operations have had an exemplary safety record and are now conducted globally. For example, the Viking Grace cruise ferry bunkered, without incident, more than 1,000 times in the Baltic between 2016 and 2020, the Clean Jacksonville LNG bunker barge closed out 2022 with the completion of its 300th bunkering in Florida, and in Singapore FueLNG successfully completed its 400th ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operations in May 2025.