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In the Shipyard

Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs six Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLECs) and two

LNG Floating Storage Units (FSUs), which has a

SHI Delivers LNG Pair to MISC combined deadweight tonnage (dwt) capacity of over two million tons.

Seri Damai and Seri Daya feature technology to cater to the growing needs for safe, reliable and energy-ef? cient solutions in the transportation of

LNG. The LNG carriers have enhanced cargo tank insulation with the GTT Mark-III Flex PLUS cargo containment system which is designed to reduce the boil-off rate to 0.07% of cargo volume per day for improved ef? ciency. Powered by WinGD

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X-DF propulsion, the vessels ful? ll the IMO Tier-

MISC welcomed two of its latest new generation of Lique- III emission requirements without any external ? ed Natural Gas (LNG) carriers, Seri Damai and Seri Daya to exhaust gas after-treatment system. It also complies with the its ? eet of LNG carriers. These 174,000 CBM LNG carriers EEXI standard while the eco-ef? cient vessels are also certi- were built for MISC by Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. ? ed with ENVIRO Notation, a voluntary adoption of integrat- (SHI) and classed by ABS. Upon their delivery, these new ing ABS requirements with international conventions for en-

LNG carriers will be on long-term charters to ExxonMobil’s vironmental protection. wholly-owned subsidiary, SeaRiver Maritime LLC (SRM) At the forefront of digital and smart shipping technology, and will be managed by Eaglestar Shipmanagenent (S) Pte. Seri Damai and Seri Daya use the Samsung SVESSEL tech-

Ltd. With the addition of Seri Damai and Seri Daya MISC nology for enhanced safety and ef? ciency through remote now has 31 LNG carriers in its GAS Business, in addition to monitoring of vessel performance and operations.

Quinto orders Inland Tanker from Concordia Damen

Dutch inland shipping yard Concordia Damen was commis- sioned to build and equip an inland shipping tanker for Quinto

Scheepvaart B.V. from Zwijndrecht, an order that also Quin- to’s switch from container shipping to tanker shipping. ‘Quin- to Scheepvaart’ has opted for a tanker of the Parsifal type, a new generation of mineral (oil and light chemicals) tankers that Concordia Damen has developed internally, with several already operational. The tanker measures 110 x 11.45m and has a large carrying capacity at a very shallow draft (2,875 tons at 3.25m). According to the shipyard, the ef? cient hull shape creates an optimal ‘speed-power curve’. The ship reach- es a high speed with a relatively low power: more than 22 km

Image courtesy Damen per hour with 2 x 500 kW engines. The stern side installation will be split into two ‘houses’; a house for the family and a house for the crew. In addition, the design is adapted on a larly appealed to us was that this type was designed in such a number of points to the speci? c wishes of the owner. CCM3, way that it combines low resistance and a shallow draft with part of the Concordia Damen Shipbuilding, was chosen for the a large cargo capacity.” Parsifal inland tankers are designed in installation and ? nishing of the vessel. “We had been planning such a way that the type of propulsion per ship can be adapted to go into tanker shipping for some time. We came to Werk- to the wishes of the customer: diesel-electric, diesel-direct endam for repairs and were interested in the Parsifal tankers,” or LNG-electric. That also happened here. The ship, with its said inland navigation entrepreneur, Luit Nanninga of Quinto. home port of Zwijndrecht, near Rotterdam, will sail with Cat- “After a conversation with managing director Chris Kornet, erpillar engines and is Stage V compliant. The tanker is ex- we visited the shipyard and viewed the ships. What particu- pected to be delivered within a year, in December 2023.

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