How Liquid Natural Gas May Revolutionize Shipping, And Make Goods Cheaper

ISTANBUL -- At a noisy, bustling shipyard 20 miles south of Istanbul, the world's second-ever tugboat powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) sits at the end of a pier, awaiting its first water trial. "Then it's off to Norway," said with no little pride Ruchan Civgin, the contracts manager at Sanmar Shipyard, of the 115-foot vessel. "The first boat left in January." Further south along the Marmara Sea coast, another shipbuilder is rolling out LNG-powered fish-feed vessels, used to transport feed ...