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
Japan’s Mitsui & Co. said it is currently proceeding with the procurement of eight LNG ships intended to be used for the delivery of LNG, mainly to its customers in Japan, from the Cameron LNG export project in the U.S. On September 26, 2014, Mitsui signed time charter parties for five ships for a t
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC, and Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. (ESG) have started construction of a new Trailing Suction Hopper Dredge ATB. The steel cutting ceremony of the 433’ Trailing Suction Hopper Dredge Barge took place in Eastern’s under roof pre-fabrication building at its All
Petronet’s Dahej LNG terminal on India’s west coast received a cargo of LNG onboard the 138,097 cbm Disha on Thursday from Qatar, according to shipping data. The LNG carrier departed from the Ras Laffan port on Monday and it is currently docked at the 10 mtpa Dahej terminal, the data shows. Toyo Eng
