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The use of LNG as a safe and eco-friendly fuel for maritime transportation was the subject of an event which took place at the Conference Centre of the University of Patras, Greece, last week.

BNP Paribas will act as lender, agent and security trustee for the $40 million loan, which finances the cost of purchasing and installing marine exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) for 16 vessels in the Singapore-based shipping company’s fleet.

The contract calls for Total Gas & Power Chartering Limited (TGPCL) to charter from NYK two dual-fuelled LNG carriers that will be built by Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. In South Korea.

There has been a noticeable uptick in scrubber orders during the second half of the year. Bunkerspot's Rhys Berry reviews some of the more high-profile contracts announced in recent months. 

The money had been intended to go towards the installation of a vacuum distillation unit (VDU) at the Petrojam oil refinery, aimed at facilitating the production of low sulphur bunker fuel.

In the early hours of 5 December, about 20 men, believed to be from the Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and armed with firearms, boarded an unnamed vessel from speed boats powered with double engine, says the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery (ReCAAP).

Old Dominion University is collaborating with LAVLE USA, Inc. to establish a new $12 million laboratory in Newport News, Virginia.

The German ferry company has awarded a contract to Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Jinling for the construction of a dual fuel vessel.

The initiative, part of the CORE LNGas hive project, involved transporting LNG in an isocontainer from Huelva to Melilla, by road, rail and sea.

Oman has become the sixteenth signatory to the Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct, which has been a key instrument in repressing piracy and armed robbery against ships operating in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden.