COSCO Corporation (Singapore) said that COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard, a subsidiary of the company’s 51% owned unity, COSCO Shipyard Group, has secured a contract valued over RMB500 million from a Chinese ship owner to build one 28,000 CBM LNG Vessel. The vessel is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2015. The contract is not [...]
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The world’s first fuelling vessel for LNG (liquefied natural gas) was last week christened in a traditional christening ceremony in Stockholm, by Helena Bonnier, the chairman of Ports of Stockholm (Stockholms Hamnar), in the presence of the Minister of Infrastructure, Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd, among others. “In the spring of 2012, the Swedish government decided to support [...]
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The European Union will co-finance with over €250,000 from the TEN-T Programme a project to convert an existing vessel into a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunkering ship so that it may be used to refuel other ships. The project, which takes place in the Port of Stockholm and contributes to the realisation of the Motorways [...]
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White Smoke Shipping said that it has together with partners developed a double hull LNG bunkering vessel (WS3 project). The WS3 project is developed together with Delta Marine and Omega Marine of Turkey as well as Frederiet AB and Crew Chart Ship Management of Sweden. The vessel is designed as a twin screw, double [...]
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STX Finland Oy’s Rauma Shipyard started the production of next generation offshore patrol vessel to be built for the Finnish Border Guard. The start of production at the Rauma Shipyard was carried out following traditions. Chief of the Finnish Border Guard, Lieutenant General Jaakko Kaukanen pressed the launch button. The event held in the steel [...]
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On October 27th, the LNG tanker Ob River arrived at the Montoir-de-Bretagne LNG terminal operated by Elengy, a GDF SUEZ subsidiary. The vessel, coming from the Pacific Ocean, is the first LNG carrier to transit the Northern Sea Route. She called at Montoir LNG terminal, located in the Nantes Saint-Nazaire harbor, for a cool-down operation [...]
Golar LNG Limited said that it has entered into a ninety day Vessel Charter Option Agreement with LNG Partners, to prospectively provide two of its newbuild LNG carriers under long term charter agreements beginning Q1 2015. The Option is being provided by Golar to LNG Partners in order to facilitate deliveries of LNG production from [...]
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LNG tanker ‘Ob River’ chartered by Gazprom Marketing & Trading group and operated by Dynagas (Greece) will carry out the world’s first LNG vessel passage through the Northern Sea Route (NSR) this month. ‘Ob River’ discharged her LNG cargo in Japan and replenished bunkers and provisions in South Korea last week, after which she started [...]
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Island Offshore Management took delivery of the 21’st vessel in its fleet. Island Contender is of design UT 776 CDG and equipped for operating on LNG alone. Island Contender is the sistership to Island Crusader delivered in May. Fuel consumption measurements show that it was correct to go for this configuration, 2 larger gas engines [...]
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Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar (NDSQ) has launched its monumental first project, the 140m Load Out/Recovery (LOR) Barge at Erhama Bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard in the Port of Ras Laffan, Qatar. The 6,500-tonne LOR Barge was constructed entirely at Erhama Bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard and took 1.6 million man-hours to complete. Throughout the build [...]
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