LNG

Seaspan, the CanadianPacific Coast company specialising in the tugs and barges sector as well as ferries and shipyard services, said it signed an accord to improve LNG bunkering services and loading at the Panama Canal in cooperation with AES Corp. of the US.

TotalEnergies, the French major under fire for its energy links to Russia, is now the target of European Union-led critics who wish to tax energy companies more, using almost any pretext.

AES Corp., the US power company and Caribbean LNG import terminal owner, has named Belgian engineering firm Tractebel as owner’s engineer for the expansion of the existing LNG terminal near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Panama is expected to become the newest LNG importer as the country prepares to take its first LNG shipment at the Costa Norte regasification facility at the port of Colon, near the entrance to the Panama Canal on the Atlantic Ocean.