TUI Cruises, the Hamburg based premium market shipping company, says it has joined a business group with an aim to promote liquefied natural gas (LNG) as nmaritime fuel.

Maritime LNG Plattform, which is the name of the group that was established earlier this week in Hamburg, wants to bring ship owners, ports and industrial groups together to promote LNG.

The group hopes e.g. that a further 50 ships that regularly trade to German ports will be powered by LNG and that at least five German ports will offer LNG bunkering also in five years’ time.