Following Greece's rich maritime tradition, the Laboratory for Maritime Transport (LMT) of NTUA is active in practically all areas of maritime transport and energy R&D, having completed or being involved in projects in areas such as technology, management, economics, logistics, finance, human aspects, environment, safety and security. LMT has implemented projects regarding environmental analysis and shipping emissions funded by Det Norske Veritas, Lloyd’s Register Fund, and the American Bureau of Shipping. It has also been involved in research projects performing innovative research in maritime operations and economics (ATOMOS, THAMES, ATOMOS II, SAFECO, SAFECO II, DISC, DISC II, PROSIT, ATOMOS IV, ADVANCES, THEMES, EVIMAR, TRAPIST, INTEGRATION, MARQUAL, MTCP, OSH, EU-MOP, FLAGSHIP, CHINOS, MOSES ,TRAINMOS, SSS-CA, EU-MOP SUPERGREEN, ECOMARINE, CYCLADES, LEANWIND, MARINELIVE, DC-SHIP TRAINMOS II, MONA LISA 2.0, PICASSO, ELEMED, SHIPLYS, BIOSFERA and ISOLA among others) In the field of LNG, the Laboratory is the technical coordinator of the EU-funded Project CYnergy, which has the objective of developing the natural gas supply and national grid of Cyprus focusing on the