LNG

Feb 24 (LNGJ) - US company Eagle LNG marked a series of firsts when it fueled the 7,500-car carrier “SIEM Aristotle” from its Talleyrand LNG Bunker Station at the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) in Jacksonville, Florida. The “SIEM Aristotle” is the first deep-sea pure car, truck carrier (PCTC) equipped with dual-fuel engines designed to operate on LNG and marine gas oil.

   “It was the first time ‘SIEM Aristotle’ had been refueled from a landside bunkering facility and the first ship that Eagle LNG had refueled of that size from the bunkering station,” said Eagle. The “SIEM Aristotle” and sister ship “SIEM Confucius” are chartered from Norway’s SIEM Shipping to Volkswagen to transport automobiles from the northwest German port of Emden to the US East and Gulf Coasts and Mexico.

Eagle LNG Partners said the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had granted authorization for the siting and construction of its second proposed small-scale LNG export facility at the Port of Jacksonville in Florida.