News – Page 151 – Pacific Maritime Magazine

01 May

Knutsen Orders LNG-Burning Hybrid Shuttle Tankers

Pacific MaritimeTerminal Operations

Haugesund, Norway-based Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers has ordered two 124,000-dwt shuttle tankers from South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering at a cost of $141 million per vessel for delivery in June and September of 2022. The twin ships, which will be able to burn LNG and are to be fitted with battery banks for hybrid operation, will be chartered to Italian energy major ENI for a period of 10 years.

01 May

Germany to Commission New Research Vessel

Pacific MaritimePropulsion Technology

The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) expects to take delivery of its new state-of-the-art research vessel Atair from the Fassmer GmbH & Co yard in Berne, Germany this month as the first seagoing government agency vessel fitted with an LNG propulsion system. The dual-fuel system integrates two six-cylinder Wärtsilä 20DF engines as well as a six-cylinder Wärtsilä 20 engine along with a Wärtsilä LNGPac fuel storage, supply and control system. LNG storage is in a 130 cubic meter capacity tank installed below deck forward of the machinery space that will give ten days of operation on LNG alone.…

01 May

Port of Portland to Discuss Budget

Sarah SpanglerNews

By Karen Robes Meeks The Port of Portland Board of Commissioners, acting as the Port of Portland Budget Committee, will convene for a meeting to discuss the annual budget on May 13. The meeting will be conducted virtually to adhere to social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. and will be broadcasted live on the port’s website and YouTube channel. The Fiscal Year 2020-21 budget message and budget document to be presented to the committee will be available to the public on May 11. Comments and questions should be submitted by email.…

01 May

Portside Propane Offers Emission Reductions

Pacific MaritimeNews

Are propane-powered ports the next big thing for the industry? It’s a discussion worth having thanks to the economic and environmental benefits the alternative fuel can offer. In fact, propane can be a go-to fuel for many port applications for these large-scale operations that place a premium on bottom-line efficiencies while having to comply with ever-increasing environmental regulations. Propane has been a reliable, trusted engine fuel used in the transportation sector for both on- and off-road vehicles for several decades. Today, propane is used in a wide variety of port applications including forklifts, port and terminal tractors, light- and medium-duty…

01 May

Corvus to Supply Battery System for Hybrid Bulker

Pacific MaritimePropulsion Technology

British Columbia’s Corvus has been contracted to provide the energy storage system (ESS) for a new hybrid coastal cargo vessel, the hull of which is being built in China for Norway’s Arriva Shipping. To be delivered by China’s Dayang Offshore Equipment in the second half of this year, the 8,000-dwt vessel will be fitted out in Norway. Designed by Bergen-based Marine Design & Consulting, the 120-meter long ship is to be operated within the self-loading/discharging segment of the Northern European bulk market. The Corvus supplied 1,500 kWh Lithium Ion battery pack, to be integrated by Westcon Power & Automation, will…

01 May

Ice-Breaking Tugs to be Built to Robert Allan Designs

Pacific MaritimeArctic

Scandinavian ship-assist companies Svitzer and Alfons Håkans have ordered a series of icebreaking tugs for port operations in Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Svitzer, now owned by Denmark’s Maersk Group, has ordered two 30-meter tugs to be built to a Robert Allan TundRA 3000 design by Med Marine’s Eregli Shipyard in Turkey. The twin vessels will replace the firm’s oldest boats, Svitzer Helios and Svitzer Dynan, when delivered toward the end of this year and in early 2021. The Turkish-built vessels will incorporate azimuth stern drives to give a bollard pull of 60 tons and will be completed to Finnish-Swedish ice…

01 May

Finland and Sweden to Cooperate on New Icebreaker Design

Pacific MaritimeArctic

The Nordic countries of Finland and Sweden have agreed to jointly design a new series of icebreakers with two to be built for Finland and three for Sweden. The agreement is between the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and the Swedish Maritime Administration. The design work on the ships will be carried out as a joint procurement, although no agreement has yet been made on construction of the vessels. The icebreakers are needed because of the larger size of commercial ships now calling at Finnish and Swedish ports as well as the age of existing icebreakers and new environmental regulations coming…

01 May

Australia’s New Icebreaker Delayed 19 Weeks

Pacific MaritimeArctic, News Briefs

Delays continue to plague Australia’s new icebreaker Nuyina being built by the Damen shipyard in Galati, Romania (see Pacific Maritime Magazine, Jan 2020). The new vessel, to be outfitted at the Damen facility in Holland, is now not expected to arrive at its home base of Hobart, Tasmania until November of this year. Because of this, plus required crew familiarization training, its first Antarctic voyage has been delayed until January of next year. The Australian Department of the Environment and Energy is studying contingency plans in order to have supplementary shipping capability available to undertake Antarctica station resupply operations in…

01 May

Northern Sea Route Sees Record Traffic

Pacific MaritimeArctic

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) above Russia saw record traffic in 2019 but the lion’s share was generated by the Yamal natural gas plant at the Port of Sabetta, which exported a total of 20.5 million tons of LNG. Other large cargo generators along the route were Nornickel’s plant on the Yenisey River that shipped 1.5 million tons of ore and Gazprom Neft’s Novy Port field, which shipped 7.7 million tons of petroleum, the latter transported by the company’s own fleet of six Arc7 ice-class tankers. According to Nikolay Monko, the Acting Director of the NSR Administration, a total of…

01 May

Grant to Aid Expansion at Duluth

Pacific MaritimeTerminal Operations

The US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has allocated a $10.5 million grant to the Duluth Seaway Port Authority to help fund construction of a 56,000-square-foot warehouse at the Clure Public Marine Terminal and to rehabilitate a section of the terminal’s dock wall. The new warehouse will complement an existing 430,000 square foot warehousing area while the dock wall rehabilitation will fortify 7 acres of laydown space for heavy-lift and project cargoes, including wind energy components. Last year cargo volume at the Great Lakes port exceeded 33.5 million short tons, the third highest throughput since 2015.