Malaysian Johor Port, a member of MMC Group, signed a Marine Services Agreement with Petronas LNG (PLL), aiming to enable the provisioning of marine services and attractive tariff for vessels that receive Gassing Up and Cooling Down (GUCD) services at PLL’s Regasification Terminal Pengerang (RGTP).
The GUCD is a specialised service of bringing the storage tanks on LNG carriers to a natural environment and cooling it down to cryogenic temperature (minus 160 degrees Celcius).
The GUCD process is a requirement for LNG vessels to ensure safe loading of the next LNG cargo.
The move seeks to encourage more operators to utilise the service at Pengerang terminal, taking advantage of its strategic location and close proximity to ship yards in Malaysia and Singapore, MMC Group said.
Johor Port currently provides a range of marine services for all types of vessels including tug and pilotage, berthing and unberthing, shifting, oil rig movement / oil rig positioning & repositioning, dockwise offload and onload, STS transfer, dead ship tow, anchoring and lay-up as well as docking and undocking of VLCCs.
Johor Port has an existing working relationship with Petronas dating back to 2015 in the Material Off Loading Facility (MOLF) project in Teluk Ramunia and Tanjung Setapa.