The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will charter a Post-Panamax vessel before the opening of the expanded Canal to be used for training purposes in the Third Set of Locks. The Executive Vice President of Operations Esteban Saenz said that the Panama Canal will charter a Post-Panamax ship to train pilot
The Dahej LNG terminal, owned by India’s biggest liquefied natural gas importer, Petronet LNG, will get a cargo of LNG from Qatar onboard the 138,097 cbm Disha on Thursday, according to shipping data. Petronet received environmental clearance from India’s Ministry of Environment & Forests this year
Inpex of Japan said that it has signed heads of agreements today with Tokyo Electric Power and Shizuoka Gas for the sales and purchase of liquefied natural gas from the Prelude FLNG project in Australia. Inpex is the parent company of Inpex Oil & Gas Australia (IOGA), a holder of an equity interest
Argentina is expected to receive a liquefied natural gas cargo from Trinidad and Tobago, shipping data reveals. The cargo is being carried by the 126,000 cbm LNG Libra, and it is scheduled to arrive at the Recalada port on June 9. Atlantic LNG, the operator of Trinidad’s only liquefaction plant, pro
Marine terminal service company Smit Lamnalco believes it has an important contribution to make as new safety regulations for floating gas terminal facilities are drawn up. Group Business Development Manager Andrew Brown points out that although there is some overlap on safety issues between floatin
SeaRoad announced that it has secured an agreement for a new vessel to augment their fleet. The company has reached an agreement with German shipyard, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG), for the construction of one LNG fuelled roll on – roll off vessel. The delivery of the 180 meter long vesse
Belgium’s Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal is expected to receive a cargo of LNG from Qatar onboard the 145,602 cbm Milaha Qatar on June 14, according to port data. Fluxys, the operator of the Zeebrugge LNG terminal, said that 37 LNG carriers unloaded at Zeebrugge in 2013, compared with 46 i
Trinidad shipped an LNG cargo from the Point Fortin terminal to Kuwait on Saturday, according to shipping data. The cargo is being carried by the 138,000 cbm Sestao Knutsen, and it is due to arrive at the Mina Al-Ahmadi LNG terminal on June 27. Excelerate Energy designed and constructed the Mina Al-
United Arab Shipping Company conluded a bilateral facility worth USD 190 million with Burgan Bank’s Corporate Banking Group to finance the acquisition of two 14,000 TEU vessels from among UASC’s new building order of seventeen vessels comprised of eleven 14,000 TEU vessels and six 18,000 TEU vessels
NYK and the Knutsen Group said that they have concluded a joint investment and financing arrangements on a 50:50 basis for two new 176,000 m3 ME-GI LNG tankers. The vessels to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries for delivery in the second half of 2016 will be chartered to Spanish energy company Gas
The Panama Canal expansion project will double the capacity of the Panama Canal by 2015 by creating a new lane of traffic and allowing more and larger ships to transit. The program consists of the construction of two new sets of locks – one on the Pacific and one on the Atlantic side of the [&hellip
Belgium’s Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal is expected to receive a cargo of LNG onboard the 145,800 cbm Al Jassasiya from Qatar on June 3. Fluxys, the operator of the LNG import terminal, said that in the first three months of 2014, nine carriers were unloaded and five were loaded at the Ze
The Al Ghuwairiya LNG carrier, with a capacity of 263,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s South Hook terminal from Qatar on June 1, port data reveals. This represents the fourth LNG carrier that will dock at the import terminal this week. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million t
The first shipment of liquefied natural gas from ExxonMobil PNG Limited’s US$19 billion PNG LNG Project has left Papua New Guinea carrying a cargo bound for Japan for Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO). “This announcement is a historic moment for Papua New Guinea,” ExxonMobil PNG Limited Managing Director
