The first in a series of six LNG-powered neo-Panamax containerships being built for Singapore’s Eastern Pacific Shipping has completed gas trials in South Korea. Image: Eastern Pacific Shipping The ship named Tenere will be chartered by CMA CGM that is also building a series of giant LNG-fueled vessels. The French
Norwegian shipping company Flex LNG will add another vessel to its fleet next week boosting the total number of carriers in operation to eight. Image: Flex LNG South Korea’s DSME will deliver the 173,400-cbm Flex Artemis on August 17, according the firm controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen. Once delivered, the
A unit of China’s State Power Investment Corporation has purchased stakes in two plants as part of a Brazilian LNG-to-power project located in Rio De Janeiro. GNA I (Image: Gas Natural Acu) SPIC Brasil entered the deal with the project operator, Gas Natural Acu. GNA is a venture consisting of
China’s Gloryholder Liquefied Gas Machinery has recently won a contract to supply LNG fuel system for two tankers being built for Sweden’s Tarbit. Image: Tarbit The LNG fuel specialist secured the order from the vessels’ shipbuilder, China’s Jiangsu New Yangzi, a unit of Yangzijiang Shipbuilding. The contract includes the design
On 6 August, Japanese shipping company NYK Line, shipbuilder Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU), and classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) signed a joint R&D agreement for the commercialisation of an ammonia-fuelled ammonia gas carrier (AFAGC) that would use ammonia as the main fuel, in addition to an ammonia floating
The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (IoMSPC) has awarded contracts for technical advisory services and the construction of its new battery hybrid ferry. Houlder, a London-based design & engineering consultancy, will act as technical advisor in the design and build of the ship, while South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo
Dutch independent storage tank firm Vopak has started offering simultaneous LNG bunkering service at its Europoort terminal in the port of Rotterdam. Image: Vopak Vessels calling at the Europoort terminal can now get LNG fuel from bunkering barges simultaneously while loading or discharging. “This eliminates the shifting time and reduces
Eagle LNG and Crowley recently marked the 100th bunkering event of liquefied natural gas to the latter’s ConRo ships from the Talleyrand facility located at the Port of Jacksonville. Image: Eagle LNG The two Crowley’s LNG-powered ConRo ships Taino and El Coqui are working on the Jacksonville, Florida to Puerto
US energy company Sempra said Monday it launched full commercial operations at the third Cameron LNG train in Louisiana. Cameron LNG (Image: Sempra Energy) This also marks the start of the full commercial operations at the three-train 12 mtpa liquefaction facility. Cameron LNG achieved commercial operations of the first and