Avenir Receives New LNG Tanker
Mar 10, 2021 9:45:am
Summary
by: William Powell
UK-based vessel operator Avenir has taken delivery of
Avenir Accolade, the second 7,500 m³ LNG bunkering and supply vessel from Keppel Offshore and Marine s shipyard in Nantong, China, it said March 10.
It will enter a three-year bareboat (uncrewed, unprovisioned) charter to LNG Power, a subsidiary of Hygo Energy Transition to support Hygo’s developments in Brazil, the first South American positioning for an Avenir vessel. The
Accolade will be capable of unloading LNG directly into trucks for onward distribution across Brazil.
Avenir LNG will commission its on-shore LNG terminal in Sardinia in the coming weeks and continue to expand its fleet with the addition of four more newbuild vessels by year end.
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