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AFRICA and Egyptian LNG and the contracts are self-perform capabilities can execute,” said
of great strategic importance to us and will Mr. Teri McKibbon, president and CEO
Svitzer strengthens support our efforts and ambitions to further of Bird. “We will draw upon our expertise
strengthen our presence and operations on
and resources from across the country
operations in Africa with the continent.” including our Bird heavy civil team. This
project exemplifies the success our ‘One Bird’
SVITZER, June 02, 2020
new contract wins strategic initiative is having by promoting
collaboration and mobility to leverage our
Recently, Svitzer took an important step AMERICAS top talent for targeted opportunities to
towards strengthening its presence in Africa add further resiliency to our backlog. By
by signing a five-year contract with Nacala Bird Construction promoting a more mobile workforce and
Logistics in Mozambique for harbour towage, increasing collaboration across the company,
occasional pilot transfer and potential salvage announces contract to we are leveraging the best talent for targeted
work in the port of Nacala. At the same time, opportunities to secure greater outcomes.”
Svitzer also secured a five-year extension of its perform construction of BIRD CONSTRUCTION, June 01, 2020
current contract with Egyptian LNG assisting
the land-based Idku LNG plant with four tugs, concrete foundations
two mooring boats and one pilot boat. ASIA
Last year, Svitzer also secured a 10-year and paving at an LNG
contract, its second in Egypt, with Suez PetroChina to build LNG
Canal Authority and managed to do a quick liquefaction export terminal
turnaround with start-up within 9 months of bunkering port
contract signing. facility in Northwestern
Svitzer’s towage services are very much State-owned PetroChina has signed an
a local service, but delivered with the high British Columbia agreement with the district government of
standards, competency and professionalism Shenzhen Yantian, Yantian Port and Shenzhen
of a global organisation. And with its Bird Construction announced today that Gas to develop China’s first LNG bunkering
global network, a strong presence on the it has signed a contract for an undisclosed project for international vessels in the city of
African continent and years of expertise and amount for construction at an LNG Shenzhen.
experience, Svitzer is able to offer solutions Liquefaction Export Terminal Facility located The project is aimed at helping to promote
tailored to local conditions and customer in Northwestern British Columbia. The the development of cleaner shipping in the
needs in Africa. contract is for the construction of concrete Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay
Nicolai Vinther Friis, Managing Director foundations and paving inside the battery Area.
of the AMEA region for Svitzer, commented: limits of the LNG trains process area and According to a statement from Yantian
“We see great potential and opportunities on is one of the largest concrete foundation Port, bunkering vessels with a capacity of
the African continent and I am therefore very packages ever awarded to Bird. 8,000-10,000 cubic metres will be used to
pleased that we succeeded in securing the The contract will start immediately and supply LNG to customers including large
contracts with Nacala Logistics and Egyptian continue into 2022. container ships. The start-up date has not
LNG. We have had close collaboration and “This project spans three fiscal years and is been disclosed, but the first phase of the
strong relations with both Nacala Logistics a great example of the scale that our industrial project is expetced to have a capacity of
230,000 tonnes per year.

CSSC, CNOOC agree to

undertake LNG conversion

project in Guangdong

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC)
and China National Offshore Oil Corp.
(CNOOC) have signed an agreement with
Guangdong Province to undertake an LNG
conversion project involving inland waterway
vessels.
Under the agreement, around 1,500
vessels will be converted to run on LNG in
Guangdong by 2025, and 19 LNG bunkering
stations will be built. The province will run
the initiative, while CSSC and CNOOC will
implement it.
According to CSSC, after full completion,

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