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Chilean company set to take delivery of

tugboats for LNG terminal in El Salvador

PROJECTS & SAAM Towage of Chile said earlier this week comply with the top category of Bureau Veritas’
COMPANIES that it was preparing to take delivery of two new escort and firefighting standards, it added.
tugboats that will be used at an LNG terminal in SAAM Towage did not comment on the value
El Salvador’s Acajutla port. or terms of the contract. It did, however, quote
In a statement, SAAM Towage said that its technical manager Pablo Cáceres as saying he
contractor, the Turkish shipbuilding company was glad that the tugboats could be completed,
Uzmar, had recently completed the two ships, even though the coronavirus (COVID-19) pan-
which will be known as SAAM Centzunat and demic has not yet died down. The company has
SAAM Acaxual. Both of the RAstar 3200W ves- “The project was a success, despite the pan-
sels will go into operation at the Acajutla termi- demic’s particular complications, which we said it expects
nal that Energía del Pacífico (EDP) is building, were able to navigate together, while staying on
it noted. schedule and in concordance with the previously to invest about
It will be more than a month before the boats agreed conditions,” he commented. “It was an
begin regular service. They are due to depart enormous challenge. Completing it successfully $1bn in the LNG
from the Turkish port of Izmit on March 12 will help us provide the best service to Energía project in El
and will be at sea for 40 days before arriving at del Pacífico.”
Acajutla. The company has said it expects to invest Salvador.
The Chilean company went on to say that the about $1bn in the LNG project in El Salvador. It
tugboats had been specially designed by Robert will use these funds to install or build a floating
Allan Ltd (Canada), to meet EDP’s needs at the storage and regasification unit (FSRU) offshore
Acajutla terminal. The vessels are 32 metres long Ajacutla, a gas-fired thermal power plant (TPP)
and have a bollard pull of more than 80 tonnes, it with a generating capacity of 378 MW and a
stated. They have a top speed of more than 13.5 44-km double-circuit power transmission line
knots, and each has been outfitted with Kongs- that will tie the TPP into the Central American
berg US255 FP azimuth thrusters and two CAT Electrical Interconnection System (CAEIS).
3516C 2,350-kW engines, it said. Additionally, it has hired Boskalis (Netherlands)
Additionally, it said, the boats were built to to build a subsea pipeline connecting the FSRU
meet the highest safety standards for LNG ter- to the power station and Elecnor (Spain) to engi-
minal operations, as specified by the buyer. Their neer and build the 230-kV power cable and all
equipment, design features and construction associated substations.™

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