South Korea Runs First Ship-to-Ship Transfer
The first LNG ship-to-ship transfer has been carried out in South Korea in a test operation for a newbuilding at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s Okpo shipyard. State-controlled gas importer Korea Gas (Kogas) said the 7,500-cbm SM Jeju LNG2 arrived at the yard on 24 November with a cargo of LNG loaded at the Tongyeong LNG terminal. LNG was transferred on to the 174,000-cbm newbuilding Global Star, which is being built for Global Shipping Co - a Nakilat and Maran Gas Maritime joint venture. The Global Star is scheduled to visit the Tongyeong facility around 6 December to take on the rest of its LNG after conducting sea and gas trials, Kogas said. The SM Jeju LNG2 normally works shipping cargoes from the Tongyeong terminal to Aewol on the island of Jeju, in the south of the country. But the ship — one of the first to be fitted with the Kogas--designed KC-1 cargo containment system — was also designed to be used as an LNG bunkering vessel.
