Flex LNG refinances
March 24 (LNGJ) - Flex LNG, the Norwegian shipping company with a fleet of 13 vessels and several chartered to the largest US exporter Cheniere Energy, has signed a new $290 million loan agreement for the refinancing of two vessels, the “Flex Freedom” with 173,400 cubic metres capacity and the “Flex Vigilant” with 174,000 cbm of capacity.
Flex said that since last month’s earnings report it had also re-financed another four ships during February and in the past 16 months the whole fleet had been refinanced. “We are pleased to have completed our approximately $2 billion refinancing process according to plan and on schedule despite the recent turmoil in the financial markets,” said Knut Traaholt, Chief Financial Officer of Flex LNG Management AS.
UK LNG traffic
Nov 30 (LNGJ) - The UK LNG import terminals at the port of Milford Haven, the South Hook facility and Dragon LNG, are scheduled to receive three LNG vessels in the first week of December. The “Flex Ranger” of 174,100 cubic metres capacity is scheduled to berth on December 3 after previously loading a shipment at the Cameron export plant in Louisiana.
Two days later the “Flex Vigilant” with the same capacity will bring a cargo from the Calcasieu Pass facility in Louisiana that was lifted on November 23. On December 7, the carrier “Sevilla Knutsen” with 173,400 cubic metres of capacity will unload a shipment at the UK Dragon LNG terminal in Milford Haven lifted on November 5 from the Pampa Melchorita plant on the Pacific Coast of Peru.
Flex LNG extends time-charters for three carriers with largest US LNG exporter Cheniere Energy
Flex LNG, the Norwegian shipping company with a fleet of 13 modern vessels, said it had extended the time-charters for three ships with Cheniere Energy, owner of the Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi exporting plants on the Gulf Coast, and meaning that Cheniere now has five Flex vessels chartered.
EU shipments
Oct 26 (LNGJ) - LNG cargoes are heading for Belgium and the Netherlands. The 206,960 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex LNG carrier “Umm Al Amad” is scheduled to deliver a shipment on October 27 to the Zeebrugge import terminal in Belgium, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on October 9 from the Ras Laffan plant in Qatar.
The 174,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Maria Energy” is scheduled to discharge a US cargo on October 29 at the Gate terminal in Rotterdam from the Calcasieu Pass export plant in Louisiana.
