HHP Insight: GTI Collaborative Training for JaxPort
HHP Insight
Tom Guildner of the Marine FireFighting Institute taught the GTI-developed course.
The LNG awareness training was developed specifically for the Port of Jacksonville area, GTI says. It included firefighters from the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Departments, the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, and area law enforcement.
The program was funded by companies currently participating in LNG projects, including TOTE’s Sea Star Line, JaxLNG, (a partnership of WesPac Midstream and Pivotal LNG), the Florida East Coast Railway, the Crowley Maritime Corporation, and Eagle LNG Partners.
GTI notes that
- TOTE’s Sea Star Line will take delivery of the first LNG-powered container ship this year, and that JaxLNG is building the facility in Jacksonville that will fuel it;
- Eagle LNG Partners is developing a natural gas liquefaction facility and terminal in the Port of Jacksonville to produce LNG for export and occasional domestic use, pending DOE/FERC authorization;
- The Florida East Coast Railway is considering LNG as both a cargo and a fuel as part of its strategic planning process; and
- Crowley Maritime is supplying LNG to Puerto Rico via barge and will take delivery of two container/roll-on roll-off vessels in 2017.
GTI says too that FAS will construct an LNG firefighting facility at its location, sponsored by members of the LNG collaborative, next year.