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REG-TOTAL Clean Marine Fuels: Total to Supply MSC Cruises’ Upcoming LNG-Powered Cruise Ships in Marseille

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Clean Marine Fuels: Total to Supply MSC Cruises’ Upcoming LNG-Powered Cruise
Ships in Marseille

 

TOTAL (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT):

Total and MSC Cruises officialised today a supply agreement for approximately
45,000 tons per year of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to MSC Cruises’ upcoming
LNG-powered cruise ships to make calls in the port of Marseille (France).

This agreement underlines a strong collaborative action across the French
maritime industry and the excellence of its value chain, from shipbuilding to
the supply of cleaner marine fuels, and the involvement of local port
authorities to enable the vessels’ safe operatorship.

Pierfrancesco Vago, MSC Cruises’ Executive Chairman, said: “This agreement
represents a further step in our ongoing journey towards continuously reducing
our environmental footprint, for which LNG is currently a crucial component.
As we prepare to launch our first of three upcoming LNG-powered cruise ships
in 2022, through this key agreement Marseille will become our hub in the
Mediterranean for the refuelling of our latest-generation and most
environmentally advanced ships.”

Alexis Vovk, President, Marketing & Services at Total, declared: “We are
proud to be developing the first LNG bunker supply chain in France, at the
port of Marseille-Fos, together with shipping industry leaders such as MSC
Cruises with whom we nurture a long-lasting partnership worldwide in the field
of bunkering services. Total will continue to step up investments in LNG
bunkering to ultimately reach its target of serving more than 10% of the
global market. By doing so, we will continue to accompany the energy
transition of the shipping industry and the reduction of carbon emissions of
our customers, in line with our Climate ambition to get to Net Zero by 2050,
together with society.”

The signature of this agreement has been placed under the high patronage of
Annick Girardin, French Minister for Marine Affairs. It benefits from the
direct support of the Minister, who has declared: “I welcome this agreement
between MSC Cruises and Total. This is a strong commitment to the environment,
which demonstrates that when major economic players commit to the ecological
transition, they can access new levers for economic development. This is also
what maritime France is all about! This agreement also illustrates France's
full potential for competitiveness and attractiveness. In line with the
Fontenoy maritime forum, I wish that these links between shipowners, energy
companies, ports and shipyards will continue to develop, in line with the
sustainable development goals.”

Used as a marine fuel, LNG sharply reduces emissions from ships, resulting in
a significant improvement in air quality, particularly for communities in
coastal areas and port cities. This agreement therefore impacts positively not
only the city where LNG bunkering will take place, Marseille, but also all the
ports where the cruise ships will make their future call around the
Mediterranean Sea.

MSC Cruises’ LNG powered vessels will be amongst the most technologically
advanced cruise ships in the world, bringing a range of environmental
innovations to the market. Chief amongst these is a 50-kilowatt, LNG-powered
solid oxide fuel cell technology project that offers a potential to further
reduce significantly greenhouse gas emissions compared to a conventional LNG
engine.

Total will bunker MSC Cruises’ LNG-powered cruise ships sailing on
Mediterranean routes by ship-to-ship transfer, using its second LNG bunker
vessel currently under construction. This vessel will meet the highest
technical and environmental standards, using LNG herself as propulsion fuel
and integrating a complete re-liquefaction of the boil-off gas.

By 2022, Total will operate two 18,600-m³ LNG bunkering vessels in Rotterdam
and Marseille and share the use of a third bunker vessel in Singapore. In
February 2021, the Company also received a license from the Maritime &
Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) to supply LNG in the Port of Singapore from
2022.

LNG as a marine fuel

LNG as a marine fuel has gained positive momentum as the global shipping
industry looks to adapt to stricter emissions standards.

Used as a marine fuel, LNG helps to cut:


 * Sulfur emissions by 99%,

 * Fine particle emissions by 99%,

 * Nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 85%,

 * Greenhouse gases emissions by around 20%.

LNG represents an available and competitive solution that contributes to the
International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) long-term strategy of reducing
greenhouse gas emissions from ships. Traction in developing LNG bunkering
infrastructure has consequently expanded with several leading ports and LNG
bunker suppliers alike having established key initiatives and made significant
progress in support of these developments. LNG as a marine fuel also lays the
foundation for the introduction of greener bioLNG in the future.

Total, Second Largest Private Global LNG Player

Total is the world's second largest privately owned LNG player, with a global
portfolio of nearly 50 Mtpa by 2025 and a global market share of around 10%.
The Group benefits from strong and diversified positions throughout the LNG
value chain: gas production and liquefaction, LNG transportation and trading,
and contribution to the development of the LNG industry for maritime
transport. Through its interests in liquefaction plants in Qatar, Nigeria,
Russia, Norway, Oman, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, the United States,
Australia and Angola, the Company markets LNG on all world markets

About Total

Total is a broad energy group that produces and markets fuels, natural gas and
electricity. Our 100,000 employees are committed to better energy that is
safer, more affordable, cleaner and accessible to as many people as possible.
Active in more than 130 countries, our ambition is to become the responsible
energy major.

About MSC Cruises

MSC Cruises is the world’s third largest cruise brand as well as the leader
in Europe, South America, the Gulf region and Southern Africa with more market
share in addition to deployed capacity than any other player. It is also the
fastest growing global cruise brand with a strong presence in the Caribbean,
North America and the Far East markets.

Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, MSC Cruises one of the two brands that
sit within the Cruises Division of MSC Group, the leading privately held
Swiss-based shipping and logistics conglomerate with over 300 years of
maritime heritage. MSC Cruises – the contemporary brand - has a modern fleet
of 18 vessels combined with a sizeable future global investment portfolio of
new vessels. The fleet is projected to grow to 23 cruise ships by 2025 with
options for six vessel orders in place through 2030.

The Company’s number one priority has always been the health and safety of
its guests and crew, as well as the communities at the destinations its ships
serve. In August 2020, MSC Cruises implemented a new comprehensive and robust
health and safety protocol to become the first major line to return to sea. To
learn more about MSC Cruises’ health & safety protocol please see here
(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msccruises.com%2Fen-gl%2FHealth-And-Safety-Measures.aspx&esheet=52401425&newsitemid=20210325005361&lan=en-US&anchor=here&index=1&md5=5499d34e7647268001a90394b5e70820)
.

MSC Cruises has long been committed to environmental stewardship with a
long-term goal to achieve zero emissions for its operations. The Company is
also a significant investor in next-generation environmental marine
technologies, with the objective to support their accelerated development and
availability industry-wide. To learn more about the Company’s environmental
commitment please see here
(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msccruises.com%2Fen-gl%2FAbout-MSC%2FMSC-Sustainability.aspx&esheet=52401425&newsitemid=20210325005361&lan=en-US&anchor=here&index=2&md5=6b48fcbec139a2f65160ae5713eddd0d)
.

Finally, to learn more about the MSC Foundation, MSC Group’s own vehicle to
lead, focus and advance its conservation, humanitarian and cultural
commitments please see here
(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmscfoundation.org%2F&esheet=52401425&newsitemid=20210325005361&lan=en-US&anchor=here&index=3&md5=97957f3738652c60452117b47efdb287)
.

Cautionary Note

This press release, from which no legal consequences may be drawn, is for
information purposes only. The entities in which TOTAL SE directly or
indirectly owns investments are separate legal entities. TOTAL SE has no
liability for their acts or omissions. In this document, the terms
“Total”, “Total Group” and Group are sometimes used for convenience.
Likewise, the words “we”, “us” and “our” may also be used to refer
to subsidiaries in general or to those who work for them. This document may
contain forward-looking information and statements that are based on a number
of economic data and assumptions made in a given economic, competitive and
regulatory environment. They may prove to be inaccurate in the future and are
subject to a number of risk factors. Neither TOTAL SE nor any of its
subsidiaries assumes any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking
information or statement, objectives or trends contained in this document
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Total

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MSC Cruise

Giles Read: +41 79 797 33 51 l giles.read@msccruises.com
(mailto:giles.read@msccruises.com)



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