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th marine LNG fuelling operation for SCF’s ‘Green Funnel’ Aframax tankers.
Since operations began in 2018, SCF’s ‘Green Funnel’ Aframaxes have taken over 62 000 t of marine LNG fuel from Shell and all 150 operations were performed safely without incident, injury or loss of fuel.
The 150th operation was performed by Korolev Prospect, on time charter to Chevron, receiving 600 t of marine LNG from Shell and delivered by Q-LNG 4000 outside Port Canaveral, Florida, whilst en route from Denmark to the US Gulf. Chevron is using the vessel to trial the viability of dual fuelled tankers for its future operations.
LNG fuel remains amongst the cleanest burning fuel options currently available for shipping operations. Sovcomflot calculates that since 2018, LNG fuel has helped reduce the total CO2 emissions of these six ‘Green Funnel’ tankers by over 56 000 t or by over 14% annually on average.
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Cargo-handling simulator training for LNG carriers and oil tankers conducted by NYK SHIPMANAGEMENT PTE LTD (NYKSM; headquarters: Singapore) in an online environment has been certified by DNV, a ship classification association based in Norway.
The DNV certification confirms that the training content follows the guidelines provided in the IMO model courses and that the training is conducted effectively.
The training is provided for seafarers boarding LNG carriers and oil tankers for the first time. It follows the IMO model courses and comprises content unique to NYK Group, including NYK’s safety culture, operational standards, current business conditions, and history. Use of the cargo handling simulator is also included. Before this training was made available, participants would need to travel to the NYKSM training centre in Singapore for simulator training. However, a cloud-based cargo-handling simulator now makes training in an online environment possible. All con
Statement to the press by Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, following the European Union Foreign Affairs Council (Paris, 18 May 2021) Share
Ladies and gentlemen,
The Foreign Affairs Council meeting is not over, but given diary constraints, as I need to join the President of the Republic at the Conference on the Financing of African Economies, I would still like to seize this opportunity to talk to you. The President may come back to this subject when he talks to the press later.
What I really want to say is both a personal and a political belief. What is happening – these moments of great violence – shows that the idea that some entertained for a while, that we could simply ignore the conflict in the Middle East and that it would go away on its own, on the basis that things would sort themselves out with time if we pretended to forget they existed, is disappearing. It was a fancy of the mind and, on the contrary, reality is returning, violently.