Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries held a christening ceremony on Thursday for the third Sayaringo STaGE next generation liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier. The christening ceremony was held at the Koyagi Plant of MHI’s Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works. The ship named LNG Juno has been built fo
Sovcomflot’s crude oil tanker Gagarin Prospect, operating on LNG fuel, completed its voyage across the Baltic and North Seas from Primorsk to Rotterdam on October 22. The vessel delivered a cargo of 104,815 tonnes of crude oil to Rotterdam. For the LNG-powered tanker, it marked its first export deli
Norway-based FSRU giant Höegh LNG confirmed Wednesday it has chartered its Höegh Gallant FSRU to Clearlake Shipping, a unit of the Switzerland-based energy trading company Gunvor. To remind, Höegh LNG said last week that the floating regasification and storage unit would be chartered to a third part
The UK’s Dragon liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal is scheduled to receive a cargo of the chilled fuel from Egypt next week. Maran Gas Maritime’s newbuild, the 173,400-cbm Maran Gas Spetses is expected to arrive at the Dragon LNG facility in the Port of Milford Haven on October 31, according to th
Law firm Watson Farley & Williams said it has advised Norway’s Höegh LNG on the recent $200 million debt financing for its ninth floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU). The 170,000-cbm FSRU to be named Höegh Gannet is currently under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea.
Damen Shipyards Mangalia, Romania, recently held a keel-laying ceremony for the Marine Aggregate Dredger (MAD) ‘CEMEX Go Innovation’. The keel laying ceremony involved three coins, a UK £1, a Dutch GUILDER and a Romanian LEU being welded into the keel of the new dredger. Mark Williams, Fleet Enginee
French LNG containment specialist GTT has secured a new order from the Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering for the tank design of a 173,400-cbm liquefied natural gas carrier. GTT said in a statement on Monday that the LNG carrier would be built by DSME on behalf of a European
Spanish shipping company Baleària will convert its three ferries from diesel to liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel using Caterpillar and MaK solutions. Hamburg-based Caterpillar Marine said in a statement that its dealer Finanzauto will perform the engine conversion, with work on the ships scheduled t
Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque, part of the Dutch shipbuilding giant Damen, is moving forward with works on converting the trailing suction hopper dredger Samuel de Champlain from diesel-electric propulsion to dual-fuel capability. Once complete, the Samuel de Champlain will be the first dredger in Euro
The Hague-based LNG giant Shell is to take the delivery of the liquefied natural gas carrier Pan Africa, the last in a series of four ships built by Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, in the coming months. The four 174,000-cbm Tri-Fuel Diesel Electric (TFDE) LNG carriers are jointly owne
The launching ceremony of the Spartacus – the world’s most powerful cutter suction dredger – is set to take place on Saturday, November 10, 2018. The 164 meters long dredger, built for DEME at the Royal IHC shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, will have a heavy-duty cutter ladder and can reach a dred
Crowley Maritime’s new liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered container/roll on-roll off ship El Coquí was christened on Saturday at the JaxPort Cruise Ship Terminal in Florida, USA. The October 20 christening marks the official start of service of the LNG-powered vessel. The ship, one of the world’s f
Singapore’s Pavilion Energy has signed an agreement with compatriot BW Group for the long-term charter of two M-type, Electronically Controlled, Gas Injection (MEGI) LNG newbuilds. The 173,400-cbm vessels are scheduled for delivery between 2019 and 2020, and will be used to enable Pavilion Energy’s
Chinese privately-owned gas distributor ENN has ordered an LNG bunkering vessel at the compatriot shipbuilder Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC).
