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DSME union block investigations
Plans for the combination of daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (dSME) and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) have run into di culties from dSME’s union, which has resisted due diligence. Business Korea reported that a team from HHI and the Korea development Bank (KdB) were blocked from visiting the okpo Shipyard, on Geoje Island, by the dSME labour union, on June 3.
e report quoted a union o cial as saying that unless the sale of dSME was abandoned, no one would meet the due diligence investigators. is repeats a similar e ort by the union in 2008, when it blocked teams from Hanwha Group, PoSCo and GS Group.
e Korean report said HHI and KdB might skip due diligence in order to avoid a clash with the union, saying that they were already well informed.
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Milan station opening
Liquigas, a leading company in the distribution of LPG and LNG, and Ekopoint, a company active in the distribution of eco- sustainable fuels, LPG, LNG, methane and energy electric vehicles, have inaugurated the rst LNG service station for heavy and light vehicles near Milan, in the Municipality of Agrate Brianza, in the province of Monza and Brianza.
e refuelling plant is located in an area with a strong industrial and logistics vocation near the tollgate of the A4 motorway of Agrate Brianza, on the directive linking Milan to Trieste. e Ekopoint LNG service station consists of a 60 cubic metre vertical storage tank, from 1 LNG dispenser for refueling heavy vehicles and two regulators for refuelling light vehicles and cars. e new
opening, which brings the total number of these service stations in Italy to more than 40, will help the uptake of this this fuel, which is e cient, price competitive and sustainable, compared with traditional fuel sources.
during the inauguration, IVECo carried out the demonstration of the supply of a Stralis NP 460 LNG-powered vehicle with range of up to 1,600 km, illustrating the process safety, in addition to the bene ts for transporters deriving from the commitment of this fuel.
“With the new Agrate Brianza plant we bring to eight the number of LNG service stations supplied by us. Another ve LNG service stations are at an advanced stage of implementation and will be open by the
end of 2019, while important projects are underway,” commented Massimiliano Naso, Head of Sales for Large Customers and LNG of Liquigas.
liQUiGAs, june 10, 2019
Golar announces Cool Pool changes
Golar LNG announces today that due to the potential spin-o of its TFdE eet into a
new pure-play LNG shipping entity, GasLog has decided to withdraw its six vessels from the Cool Pool. Golar, or, subject to interim market conditions, the spin-o entity, will assume ownership of the Cool Pool following GasLog’s departure in June. ere will be a ramp down period to allow for conclusion of existing GasLog vessel charter contracts.
Golar are in talks with other owners of similar tonnage to join the new shipping entity. It is expected that Golar’s spot traded TFdE carriers, the Golar Tundra together with Golar Power’s available TFdE carriers and any further tonnage within the new shipping entity will continue to trade within the Cool Pool a er a formal launch of the spin-o . Transfer of the Cool Pool to this new shipping entity is expected to create the leading independent provider of available on-the-water TFdE LNG carriers. Formal
launch of the spin-o and the transfer of the shares in Cool Pool thereto remains subject to satisfactory market and other closing conditions.
GolAR lnG, june 6, 2019
Eesti Gaas started
bunkering in the port of
Helsinki
Elenger, the subsidiary company of the Eesti Gaas group operating in foreign markets, started LNG bunkering in the port of Helsinki. e ship being bunkered is the same that Eesti Gaas bunkers in the port of Tallinn, the shuttle Megastar, which cruises between Helsinki and Tallinn.
“While LNG bunkering is rather a rare sight in the port of Helsinki these days, it is bound to become one of routine operations in the nearest future: LNG will eventually replace diesel fuel among marine fuels, which will contribute to cleaner air and cleaner Baltic Sea,” Jarko Alanko, the CEo of Elenger Finland, noted.
Captain Tarvi-Carlos Tuulik, Head of Ship Management at Tallink Group, says that the most important word in the shipping industry of the 21st century is “sustainability”. “As far as sustainability is concerned, Tallink Group is one of its pioneers not on the Baltic Sea alone but on the European scale. We have already decreased our footprint on board and onshore compared to what it was before, and we keep working every day to reduce it further in the future for a lower environmental impact,” Tuulik noted.
Tallink’s Megastar will be truck-to-ship bunkered in the port of Helsinki once a week, every Tuesday, within one hour in
the evening. Elenger primarily delivers
LNG to the port of Helsinki from the new Novatek’s LNG plant in Vysotsk, which was commissioned with the assistance of Elenger experts.
A security zone within 30 metres of the bunkering site, which unauthorised persons are prohibited from accessing, will be established in the port of Helsinki during each bunkering operation. In order to completely eliminate the risk of sparks being produced electricity in the security zone will be switched o during the bunkering. e quick couplings used for bunkering guarantee that the process is entirely leak-free. Such safety measures
are based on the extensive risk assessment performed in the winter.
EEsti GAAs, june 10, 2019
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