LNG bunkering barge Q-LNG 4000 arrives at Port Canaveral March 2, 2021, by Sanja Pekic
Quality Liquefied Natural Gas Transport’s (QLNG) newbuild arrived at Florida’s Port Canaveral, making it Americas’ first LNG cruise port.
Courtesy of Port Canaveral
Q-LNG 4000, a ship-to-ship articulated tug and bunker barge (ATB) nicknamed the “Q4K”, is designed, engineered, and internationally and U.S. certified to provide safe and reliable ship-to-ship transfers of the cleaner-burning LNG.
It has a carrying capacity of up to 4,000 cubic metres of LNG. It is 324-feet-long, and its attached tug is 128-feet-long.
The U.S.-owned and operated vessel was constructed at VT Halter Marine Inc. shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and is crewed by U.S. mariners.