For the first time, vehicles from Europe will be transported from Europe to North and Central America on a car freighter powered by LNG. On June 16g the SIEM CONFUCIUS with more than 4,800 vehicles for North America left Emden for Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico.
Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has awarded permits for the construction of Hollandse Kust Zuid off Netherlands. With its installed capacity of 1,500 MW, the offshore wind farm will be the largest of its kind worldwide, when fully operational in 2023.
The Port of Barcelona received the first call from the MSC Sixin, the second largest container ship in the world, which is carrying out loading and unloading operations at the Hutchison Ports BEST terminal.
The world’s largest container vessel, HMM Algeciras transited the Suez Canal among the south convoy. The record-breaking vessel has a capacity of 23,964 TEUs.
HMM informed that the world’s largest containership, ‘the Algeciras,’ achieved a new world record by departing Yantian, China fully filled with containers.
Zhonghua Shipbuilding delivered the world’s largest 18,600 cubic meter LNG bunkering vessel, to be named Gas Agility.
China-based Yantai CIMC Raffles Shipyard has cut the first steel for a new LNG-powered roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessel ordered by Swedish shipping company Wallenius SOL. Specifically, the vessel is planned to be delivered in August 2021, and is the world’s first RoRo ship to be both LNG fueled and have an ice class 1A Super.
Sleipnir, the world’s most powerful semi-submersible crane vessel owned by Dutch Heerema, received the largest LNG bunkering ever completed, on Thursday. The total amount of LNG delivered was almost 3,300 metric tons.
The Port of Rotterdam reported that the world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir will arrive on March 21, for the first time. Sembcorp Marine, a Singaporean ship and offshore builder, completed the construction of Heerema’s Sleipnir in July 2019.
Wallenius Marine in order to complete the design of the world’s largest LNG RoRo vessel with ice class 1A Super, conducted some ice testing operations using a seven meter long ship model, in Helsinki.
