21AUG2019 - NEWS - Oil major charters 10 LNG-powered Aframax tankers

In a bid to lower its carbon footprint, Shell Shipping & Trading has agreed to charter-in 10 LNG-powered Aframax tankers from Sinokor Petroleum
The vessels are due for delivery from 2021 from Samsung Heavy Industries and will be joined in 2021 by four LNG-powered product tankers, which Shell has agreed to charter from institutional investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management. Shell has previously announced it has chartered in two LNG-powered Aframax tankers from AET.

Shell plans to fuel the tankers at existing facilities in Singapore, Rotterdam and other bunkering ports. Shell has an established LNG bunkering operation in Rotterdam and its 6,500-m3 LNG bunker vessel Cardissa fuelled LNG-powered 114,000-dwt Sovcomflot tanker Gagarin Prospect in an operation that marked a number of LNG bunkering industry firsts. It was not only the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering procedure to take place in Rotterdam, Cardissa’s home port, but also the world’s first fuelling of a gas-powered Aframax tanker.