Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 02/2018
Adoption of LNG as primary fuel
SCF Group (PAO Sovcomflot) has signed time-charter agreements with Shell for two dual-fuelled Aframax tankers in a deal which marks the next step in a collaboration between the companies which aims to reduce the environmental footprint of the tanker industry, in particular, by fuelling tankers with LNG. The new contracts follow the LNG Fuel Supply Agreement between Shell and Sovcomflot concluded in 2017, which pioneered the expansion of marine LNG in the tanker sector and, in general, for vessels not tied to fixed routes or set timetables....