LNG

Jan 30 (LNGJ) - Arctia, the shipping company in Finland with a fleet of eight ice-breakers, said the world’s first LNG-powered ice-breaker “Polaris” had entered 2018 operations. The “Polaris” runs on both marine diesel and LNG. “The crew is very excited to begin ice-breaking duty,” said Pasi Jarvelin, the master of “Polaris”. Arctia said the vessel would be fueled with 700 cubic metres of LNG at the Finnish import terminal at the port of Pori before joining two other ice-breakers assisting shipping traffic in the Bothnian Bay area of the northern Baltic Sea.