Easier said than done. The facilities to load and unload those CNG ships are expensive. Not to mention a nice tempting target.
They take a bit to build, and there are few of them now. Europe allowed themselves to become beholden to Russia, and now have very few options. If they make to much noise, European industry shuts downs (No gas, no power, no factories).
CNG is not so expensive, but has reduced volume of gas compared to LNG. Most of our planned Natural Gas export terminals are LNG. We don't have any operational yet. They are mostly existing LNG import terminals that haven't built the Liquefaction units yet.
There is some CNG planned, not sure if any are operational yet, but they move less volume and the ships are rare.
We had a tiny LNG export out of Alaska for decades but it closed down a few years ago with the reduced natural gas production in the Cook Inlet area.
Thank you. Thackney has been saying the same thing.
“CNG ships are expensive. Not to mention a nice tempting target.”
I bet de would blowed up real good.