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Southampton welcomes largest-ever LNG ship

[ September 15, 2026   //   Chris Lewis ]

The CMA CGM Pantheon arrived in the Port of Southampton on 15 September. At 24,212-TEU she is the largest LNG vessel to ever call in the UK and the second in a new series of ten 24,000-TEU containerships registered under the French flag.

Designed to operate on LNG, the vessel is already fully compatible with renewable bio-LNG (biomethane) and, in the future, synthetic e-methane.

CMA CGM operates one of the world’s largest dual-fuel fleets with the objective of achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2050. By 2031, the Group expects to operate around 200 container ships capable of using low-carbon energies.

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