Sinanju Inducts LNG-Fuelled Bunker Vessel in its Fleet
Sinanju Tankers Holdings January 29 said Singapore's first dual-fuel bunker tanker has joined its fleet.
The vessel named Marine Vicky will be Sinanju’s 14th bunker tanker and start operations in March this year under a two-year time-charter agreement with ExxonMobil, the company said in a statement published on its Linkedin page. Marine Vicky will deliver ExxonMobil’s new engineered marine fuels to ocean-going vessels within Singapore port limits
Marine Vicky is a 103-metre long 19-m wide bunker tanker classed by Bureau Veritas and has a carrying capacity of 7,990 tons. It is equipped with a 55 m3 LNG tank paired with a fuel gas supply system on deck for engine propulsion. The vessel is built at Keppel O&M's shipyard in Nantong, China, under the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore’s LNG bunkering pilot programme.