One of the world’s largest LNG tankers in the world, the 266,000 cbm Mozah, is scheduled to arrive at the UK’s South Hook import terminal this week. The vessel, with a Qatar-sourced LNG cargo, is expected to arrive at one of Europe’s biggest LNG receiving terminals on October 12, port data shows. Th
Petronet’s Dahej LNG terminal on India’s west coast received a cargo of LNG onboard the 216,000 cbm Mesaimeer LNG carrier on Wednesday from Qatar, according to shipping data. The LNG carrier departed from the 10 mtpa Dahej terminal yesterday, the data shows. Toyo Engineering of Japan has earlier thi
TOTE Shipholdings and Sea Star Line signed a deal on the charter of the two new Marlin Class vessels being built at NASSCO in San Diego, CA. The new Marlin Class ships will be the first liquefied natural gas powered containerships in the world and will almost double the cargo capacity available to P
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines held a naming ceremony for the LNG Venus, a newbuilding liquefied natural gas carrier at the Nagasaki Shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. “As a large group of guests looked on, Osaka Gas President Ozaki named the vessel, and his wife cut the rope,” MOL said in a statement. T
Damen Shipyards said MV Kairi, the first of four ASD 2810 tugs ordered by ARC Towage, has left for Trinidad. On 31 July 2013, ARC Towage singed four contracts at the Netherlands shipbuilder. The newbuilding contracts with ARC Towage are the result of a special joint venture set-up for the terminal b
The latest liquefied natural gas cargo to be loaded at the Peru LNG export terminal has been dispatched to Mexico. The 173,600 cbm Castillo de Santisteban departed from the country’s only liquefaction facility on Monday. The tanker is probably sailing to the Manzanillo terminal, even though the stat
Becker Marine Systems is expecting the first LNG Hybrid Barge, which in future will be supplying cruise ships with low-emission, environmentally-friendly energy, to soon arrive at the Port of Hamburg. The LNG Hybrid Barge, the first classified vessel employing LNG technology under German flag, is ex
GTT’s unit in North America signed an agreement with Conrad Shipyard for the future production of LNG membrane tanks using GTT’s technology. The signing of an agreement initiates the process of training and preparing Conrad Shipyard, a major US shipbuilder, to offer GTT’s membrane containment techno
The 4,700 cbm ethylene carrier Coral Star, owned by Anthony Veder, called the port of Zeebrugge for LNG fuel trials at the Euroservices Terminal earlier in September. The vessel was delivered by Avic-Dingheng Shipbuilding yard in China and is Anthony Veder’s first ship with LNG tanks for cargo-indep
A steel cutting ceremony for an ice-class LNG tanker ordered by Russia’s Sovcomflot was held on Monday at DSME’s shipyard in South Korea. The 172,600 cbm vessel will be operated under a long-term time charter agreement between Sovcomflot and Yamal LNG. It will be used to transport the chilled gas fr
Dynagas LNG Partners said that it has completed the acquisition of the 2013 built ice class LNG carrier Yenisei River. The acquisition of the liquefied natural gas carrier, and the related time charter contract with Gazprom Global LNG Limited, was finalized for an aggregate purchase price of $257.5
Sanmar Shipyards of Turkey said it has won a contract involving seven vessels from Aqaba Port Marine Services Company (APMSCO) in Jordan. Comprising four 80-tonne bollard pull terminal RAstar 2800 tugs, two conventional twin screw Ras-cal 1500 line-handling tugs and a pilot boat, the order was confi
The UK’s Teesport liquefied natural gas terminal received a cargo onboard the small-scale LNG tanker Coral Methane. The 7,500 cbm vessel, docked at Excelerate Energy’s Teesport terminal on September 27, carrying a cargo from Sweden, and departed yesterday, shipping data reveals. According to Exceler
A Nigerian customer has added his 9th Damen dredger to its fleet. The CSD500 type cutter suction dredger was chosen due to the excellent availability of Damen Field Service in Nigeria. This local presence was very practical as well due to the challenging assembly conditions. The Damen Shipyards Grou
