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Floating Giants, Bold Moves & Clean Horizons
From Golar’s FLNG conversion to the Mediterranean’s clean-air shift and Argentina’s leap in LNG, this issue covers big ships, bold deals, and the evolving future of LNG at sea.
Welcome to another issue of my LNG Shipping Newsletter! I’m kicking things off with a quick insight to sharpen your LNG knowledge 🎓, followed by a snapshot of the latest LNG prices 💰, and then we’ll unpack the key developments in LNG shipping from the past week 📅.
🎓 LNGKnowledge
The LNG ship can be loaded partially when a failure occurs in one tank 🚨 or simply if the discharge port requires a quantity less than the total volume of the ship. The partial loading can be in two, three or four tanks. These conditions are found in the Loading / Stability booklet and approved by the classification society 🖋. Before accepting any loading/discharging instruction, the Captain/Chief Officer must ensure that, during all the sea passage, the ship's hull will not experience any unacceptable stress (Shear force, Bending moment) by checking/calculating all the possible scenarios 🎯. |  Source : Cargo Operating Manual |