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01 Jun

Yamal LNG Ships 30 Million Tons of LNG

Pacific MaritimeTerminal Operations

Novatek’s Yamal LNG project in the Russian Arctic has now shipped more than 30 million tons of product, with the Arc7 ice-class tanker Nikolay Yevgenov loading the 411th cargo to mark the milestone earlier this year. In 2019, the project’s first full-year of simultaneous operation of all three liquefaction trains, 18.4 million tons of LNG were produced which exceeded the plant’s annual design capacity by 11 percent or 1.9 million tons. The first LNG Train at Yamal began production in the final quarter of 2017 while Trains 2 and 3 came on line in July 2018 and November 2018 respectively.…

01 Jun

New Oil Dock for Corpus Christi

Pacific MaritimeTerminal Operations

The newly commissioned Oil Dock 14 at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas received its first vessel in mid-April after completion of construction by the port authority and terminal operator Pin Oak Corpus Christi (Pin Oak Terminals). The new dock can accommodate fully laden bulk liquid tankers up to Suezmax class with loading rates in excess of 40,000 barrels per hour. Pin Oak Terminals is a joint venture between Dauphine Midstream LLC and the Mercuria Energy Group Ltd.

01 Jun

Port of Virginia Closes Terminal

Pacific MaritimeTerminal Operations

The Port of Virginia has become one of the first major domestic ports to close one of its terminals because of COVID-19 when its Portsmouth Marine Terminal was shuttered in early May and cargo moved to other port facilities. The Portsmouth terminal encompasses 287 acres and has 3,540 feet of wharf served by 6 Super Post-Panamax cranes and a container handling capacity of 437,500 TEUs per year.

01 Jun

Wilmington Completes Turning Basin Expansion

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The North Carolina State Ports Authority (NCSPA) has completed the second phase of its turning basin expansion project at the Port of Wilmington to allow the movement of ships of up to 1,200 feet in length. The multi-million dollar project widened the Cape Fear River turning basin from 1,400 feet to 1,524 feet, with the additional 124 feet allowing container ships of up to 14,000-TEU capacity to be safely turned. Completion of the project follows the opening of 2,600 feet of berthing space at the port that allows two mega container ships to be handled simultaneously and expands the port’s…

Washington’s Skagit County Releases RFIs <br>for Electric Ferry Design

01 Jun

Washington’s Skagit County Releases RFIs
for Electric Ferry Design

Pacific MaritimePropulsion Technology

Skagit County Public Works and vessel designer, Glosten, are seeking technical information and cost estimates from vendors to inform design decisions related to the electrical system, the propulsion system, the shore side electrical system, and the automated charging plug of the all-electric ferry design to replace the M/V Guemes. Skagit County Public Works engaged naval architecture firm Glosten in 2017 to develop an all- electric ferry design to replace the Guemes, a 40-year old diesel-powered vessel. The new vessel will be a double-ended vehicle and passenger ferry with a three-tiered deckhouse. The design accommodates four lanes of vehicles including highway-rated…

01 Jun

Twin LNG-Fueled PCTCs Entering Service

Pacific MaritimePropulsion Technology

China’s Xiamen Shipyard has delivered the pure car truck carriers (PCTCs) Siem Confucius and Siem Aristole to Siem Car Carriers with both vessels being chartered by the Volkswagen Group to transport vehicles from Europe to North America. The 200-meter by 36-meter twins, each with a capacity for 4,700 vehicles, are powered by MAN B&W S60ME-GI dual-fuel, two-stroke engines that deliver 12,600 kW and feature direct injection and exhaust-gas treatment to reduce emissions. The LNG, which will also be used to fuel two 9L28/32DF and one 7L28/32DF dual-fuel auxiliary engines per ship, is stored in two 1,800-cubic meter capacity tanks installed…

01 Jun

World’s Only Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ship

Pacific MaritimePropulsion Technology

Russia’s Rosatomflot has been keeping the world’s only nuclear-powered commercial vessel, the 1988-built Sevmorput, active in the Arctic where the ship has been delivering construction supplies to Alexandria Island, the site of Russia’s northernmost military base, as well as to Franz Josef Land and Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 project in the Gulf of Ob. Later this year the 1988-built vessel is scheduled to load cargo for Russia’s Vostok research station in Antarctica, considered the coldest place on earth.

01 Jun

Fully-Electric Ferries for Amsterdam

Pacific MaritimePropulsion Technology

GVB, the City of Amsterdam’s municipal public transport provider, has awarded Holland Shipyards Group a contract to build five new 41-meter by 13.9-meter fully-electric ferries for operation in the city’s North Sea Canal area. They will have a capacity for 400 passengers or 20 cars and 4 trucks, depending upon requirements. Each vessel will have two battery banks of 340 kWh output each driving two 300 kW propulsion motors and battery charging will be accomplished automatically in approximately 3 minutes using facilities at the terminals while loading and unloading takes place. The first ferry is expected to enter service next…

01 Jun

Box-Mounted VentiFoils

Pacific MaritimePropulsion Technology

Netherlands-based eConowind, developer of the wind-assist product VentiFoil (see Pacific Maritime Magazine, Feb 2020) has been contracted to install two of its devices on a cargo vessel owned by Holland’s Boomsma Shipping BV. The twin units have been integrated into a specially designed flatrack container that can be carried on deck and from which the folding VentiFoils can be deployed. VentiFoils are ridged aspirated non-rotating wing profiles that create thrust by means of the principle of boundary-layer-suction. Because of the additional thrust they generate the thrust of the ship’s propeller can be reduced to maintain the same speed while saving…

01 Jun

French Company to Order Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Pushtug

Pacific MaritimePropulsion Technology

French transport group Sogestran, through its subsidiary Compagnie Fluvial de Transport, expects to have a hydrogen fuel cell-propelled pushtug in operation on the Rhone river between Marseille and Lyon by the third quarter of next year. A design for the tug has been completed and a builder is expected to be selected shortly. The building contract will be supported by a $7.3 million grant to be provided by the European Union’s Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking within its Horizon 2020 project. The new tug will be equipped with a mobile fuel tank that will hold compressed green hydrogen created…