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SCF Group

Metal Shark

PAO Sovcom? ot took delivery of a new LNG Carrier.

Metal Shark Delivers Fireboats for Miami-Dade.

55 x 17.5-ft. Metal Shark ? reboats feature an innovative pi- signi? cantly reduces cargo losses while on long voyages or lothouse that uses Metal Shark’s signature “pillarless glass” awaiting cargo operations.

with reverse-raked windshield, helping to reduce blind spots.

The ? reboats are powered by twin V8, 16-liter, 1,200-horse- SeaTac Grows Barge Capacity to Alaska power MAN D2862 LE456 inboard diesel engines coupled Seattle-based SeaTac Marine Services has acquired a new to Marine Jet Power (MJP) 350X waterjets via ZF500 trans- heavy deck cargo barge, a barge built in 2010 that can haul missions, and reach a top speed in excess of 44 knots. The up to 11,000 tons and with nearly 30,000 square feet of deck ? reboats deliver a ? ow rate in excess of 8,500 GPM, with space, making it one of the larger barges in the Paci? c cargo twin Darley ZFE 3000 self-priming ? re pumps driven via trade. The 300 x 100 feet barge was purchased from Signet

PTO from the main engines. Each pump draws from its own Marine in late 2020. Specializing in general cargo and heavy dedicated in-hull sea chest, feeding a central manifold with lift machinery, the Atlas will ? t well into SeaTac Marine’s crossover capability, which in turn supplies the entire system. regular shipping schedule to Anchorage and Seward. SeaTac

Marine is modifying the barge to maximize cargo protection

SCF Takes New LNG Carrier and space.

On January 15, 2021, PAO Sovcom? ot (SCF Group) took delivery of SCF Timmerman, a new 174,000-cbm LNG car- rier. The same day, the vessel embarked upon her maiden commercial voyage. The carrier is operated under a long-term time charter agreement with Shell. The carrier was named af- ter Frans Timmerman, a 17th-century Dutch merchant who served as a shipbuilding mentor to the Russian emperor Peter the Great and played an important role in creating the Russian seaborne ? eet. SCF Timmerman is the third vessel in a series of 174,000-cbm new-generation Atlanticmax LNG carriers ordered by SCF Group in 2018. The lead vessel of the series,

SCF La Perouse, was delivered to SCF in February 2020 and is time chartered to Total. The second vessel in the series, SCF

Barents, was delivered to SCF in September 2020 and is also time chartered to Shell. Each ship is equipped with an ad- vanced Mark III Flex cargo containment system, slow-speed dual-fuel X-DF engine, and a system that reduces nitrogen oxide emissions while the vessel sails in liquid fuel mode. In

SeaTac addition, all vessels of the series are among the ? rst globally

SeaTac Grows its Barge Capacity in Alaska.

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