Shuttle tanker operator Knutsen Group on Tuesday (3 January) said it took delivery of a new LNG bunker vessel Haugesund Knutsen.
The vessel is a 5000 m3 LNG bunker vessel specially designed for supplying LNG to gas carriers and gas fueled vessels like cruise and ferries.
“Armon Shipyards built the vessel and it is the first small-scale LNG vessel ever built in Spain,” the firm said in a social media post.
Photo credit: Knutsen Group
Published: 4 January, 2022
Better and safer starting point could be a blend of VLSFO with different percentages of HVO that meet ISO 8217:2017 specs rather than using pure HVO, suggests Blend Tiger LLC study.
Toyota Tsusho Petroleum also supplies biofuel produced in Europe and sold by GoodFuels, a biofuel producer in the Netherlands, for foreign ships at Singapore port.
‘The vessel [MT Strovolos] has been wrongly charged with stealing the cargo. It is not and has never at any time been our intention to misappropriate the cargo.’
Vessels will be fitted with high-pressure ME-GI engines from MAN Energy Solutions, reducing methane slippage to ‘negligible levels’; ships will expand Crowley’s fleet.
Greece’s first LNG bunker vessel will be supplied with LNG at Revithoussa LNG terminal and will refuel ships both in Piraeus and other ports in Greece and the wider region.
Development ensures stakeholders continue to be paid in the normal course of business, it says.
Transferred shares of 40 subsidiaries to BVI firm after tribunal awarded claims in favour of Trinity Seatrading; YSPL has also filed a civil complaint against DNV and Liberian ship registry at Nanjing Maritime Court.
ADNOC L&S, Gulf Energy Maritime, Cockett Marine Oil, Mideast/Bahri Ship Management and VPS experts present their views on biofuel bunker hurdles at the VPS Biofuels Seminar in Dubai on 16 March.
‘Bunker barges operate in very local areas so these vessels call at port very often which means it will be a good fit for women with families,’ states Elpi Petraki, President of WISTA International.
“Our Singapore branch is under preparation and is expected to start business at the republic before June 2023,” Managing Director Darcy Wong tells bunkering publication Manifold Times in an interview.
Development to supply B35 biodiesel blend officially takes effect on 1 February; local bunker suppliers will be able to deliver updated spec within March onwards, once current stocks of B30 avails run out.
VPS, Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation, Wilhelmsen Ship Management, and INTERTANKO executives offered a multitude of perspectives to 73 attendees during the VPS Biofuels Seminar, reports Manifold Times.
17 Mar 2023
