The maritime fleet industry needs to use more liquefied natural gas as a fuel in order to lower its emissions, a Finnish company said Friday. Wärtsilä Corp., a Finnish company that makes engines for the marine and energy market, said Friday that liquefied natural gas used as a marine fuel would help the industry lower its emissions of greenhouse gases. “LNG as a marine fuel has a crucial role in greenhouse gas reduction roadmap, and provides the basis for other actions to even further reduce the emissions of shipping,” the company stated. “Wärtsilä puts a great effort to create offering enabling effective utilization of LNG.” The company’s support for LNG comes one week after the […]