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LNG Ferry Megastar

Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku ting, testing and commissioning. The

VESSELS

LNG Ferry Megastar

Shipyard delivered the LNG fast ferry Russian Maritime Register of Shipping,

Megastar to owner Tallink on January which is providing technical supervi- 24. The newly built ferry was to begin sion during the construction of all the plying the Helsinki-Tallinn route on four vessels, has assigned an ice class of

January 29. The 212-m Megastar uses Icebreaker 6 to the new IBSV.

LNG as fuel, but is also able to run on

Barge-based FSRU marine diesel. With LNG, the vessel will create no sulphur or soot particles The world’s ? rst barge-based Float- and decreasing the nitrogen and CO2 ing Storage and Regasi? cation Unit emissions. Designed for the Tallinn- (FSRU) has undocked from dry-dock in

Helsinki route exclusively, Megastar Nantong, China, announced Wison Off- will comply with the current and future shore & Marine, who provided EPC ser- emission regulations for the Emission vices for Exmar. Upon the undocking,

Control Areas (ECA), including the topside installation has been completed,

Baltic Sea. Megastar’s hull shape also which paves the way for delivery. This results in substantial fuel savings dur- is the ? rst FSRU being built in China ing operation. Megastar is co-? nanced and the facility is to become the world’s by European Union, the Connecting ? rst FSRU with small-scale storage

Europe Facility, Transport – Motorways capacity. This non-propelled FSRU of the sea. Megastar will take onboard barge has a regasi? cation capacity of 2,800 passengers and offers three travel 600MMSCFD. Two SPB cargo tanks, classes (Star, Comfort and Business). each with a capacity of 12,500 m3,

For car passengers, double level loading are installed in the hull for LNG stor- and wider car deck access will improve age. It is the second project on which the loading and unloading time. . Wison and Exmar have been cooperat- ing following the Caribbean FLNG, the world’s ? rst FLNG project.

SCF’s New Icebreaker

A naming ceremony was held January

Tug for E.N. Bisso & Son 30 for SCF Group’s new icebreaking platform supply vessel (IBSV), Gen- A new tug built by Signet Shipbuilding

SCF’s New Icebreaker nadiy Nevelskoy, named after a famous and Repair was delivered to E.N. Bisso explorer of the Sakhalin Island and & Son Inc. in mid-December. The ves- the Russian Far East. Built by Arctech sel, Gladys B, is Robert Allan Ltd.’s

Helsinki Shipyard, the Russian ? agged newest RApport 2400 class tugboat de- 3,000 dwt Gennadiy Nevelskoy will sign. “She is named for the wife of the home port in Saint Petersburg and was founder of the company in 1946, Cap- commissioned by SCF under a long- tain Edwin Napoleon Bisso. This power- term agreement with Sakhalin Energy. ful steel titan will serve her owner well.

It is the ? rst of four vessels for opera- Built in America, built by Americans tions at the Sakhalin-2 project; the other and built for progress. She will soon be three are ice-breaking standby vessels known in Louisiana as the Maserati of (IBSBVs) that have a smaller dead- the River,” said J. Barry Snyder, Presi- weight (2,000 metric tons), but offer en- dent, Signet. Two MTU 16V4000-M64 hanced functionality and a higher peo- main engines with EPA Tier 3 emission ple-on-board capacity. All four ships certi? cation power the Gladys B, driv- are being built by Arctech in Helsinki, ing Rolls Royce US 205FP azimuth

Barge-based FSRU who holds overall responsibility for the thrusters with 2400 mm ? xed pitch

Photo: Wison Photo: Eric Haun Photo: Meyer Turku Shipyard

Tug for E.N. Bisso & Son Jeffrey McAllister

Photo: Robert Allan Ltd.

Photo: Easthern Shipbuilding

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