AET takes delivery of DP2 shuttle tanker Eagle Pilar
AET, one of the world’s leading petroleum tanker owners and operators, took delivery of Eagle Pilar today, a new Suezmax second generation Dynamic Positioning (DP2) Shuttle Tanker which has been purpose built for long-term charter to Brazil Shipping I Limited, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc.
Eagle Pilar has been successfully delivered to AET by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in South Korea. The vessel was safely constructed at the SHI yard and timely delivered amid the COVID-19 outbreak with all extra health and safety precautions taken by AET and the Eaglestar site teams working closely together with the SHI team to safeguard the ongoing construction and delivery.
and freight vehicles to and from the uk and eu. it is a relief and a good thing to see, and we need to make sure that gets enacted by different authorities to make that happen. how easy will it be to make that happen? it isa easy will it be to make that happen? it is a unilateral decision by the european commission, so it is their decision to take. but it is dependent upon the uk agreeing to reciprocate it, to allow symmetrical access to uk and eu hauliers, so they are pulling today to allow for a six month bilateral agreement to allow trucks to move across the uk and eu to make sure we all get the goods that we need. you have talked about stockpiling. is it your view that consumers, in the event of a no deal, should prepare for prices to go up? that is a question about what
over the other? this new deadline of sunday, let us say that they do begin to make progress on the issues you are talking to, is it a full stop? if you are a business at the moment, on sunday, it will be 18 days until the end of the transition period, and to give businesses that little notice to prepare for such a profound difference in our trading relationship, we would be going from the closest relationship anywhere in the closest relationship anywhere in the world to the worst trade relationship, and businesses would have just 18 days notice of that. in one sense, it is observed that it has got theirs, but in another sense, if you are on a verge of a deal on sunday, you wouldn‘t want to give up if you thought you were just a day or two away from getting it over the line. there is no absolute
nick eardley there. the uk government has promised that the provisions agreed in the withdrawal agreement will protect the right of people and businesses in northern ireland. chris page is in belfast. chris, what is the sense there, the reaction to this protocol? yes, businesses say a few questions have been answered, but still plenty others remain unanswered. the northern ireland protocol, the part of the brexiteer that means northern ireland in effect remains in the eu legal market for goods single market, the implication that means there will be some checks on new goods arriving into the likes of here, belfast port, from the rest of the uk, michael gove gave some details come up we know the agreement reached by the uk and eu yesterday, as regards to foods in
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