MOL announced that on 11 September, a naming ceremony for an ice-breaking LNG carrier, which was jointly ordered by MOL and COSCO, took place at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).
The newbuild vessel was named “Vladimir Vize”, in honor of the Russian Arctic explorer and oceanologist. ‘Vladimir Vize’ is the sister vessel of the “Vladimir Rusanov”, which started transport service at the end of March 2018, transporting LNG for the YAMAL LNG Project.
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The ‘Vladimir Vize’ is scheduled to start service for the Yamal LNG project after its delivery at the end of September in DSME. It will carry out its operation without ice-breaker support in the Northern Sea Route towards the Yamal LNG plant at Sabetta port in Russia.
In addition, the construction of the last of the three newbuild ice-breaking LNG vessels are progressing as planned in DSME, and will be delivered to the Yamal LNG Project next year.
As for the four conventional LNG carriers for the Yamal LNG Projec, their construction is expected to be completed during 2019 – 2020.
The second train at the Yamal LNG plant started its operation in August 2018, with LNG production from the plant expanding steadily.
