Shell bunkers first Sovcomflot aframax with LNG

Energy major Shell has supplied LNG as bunkers in a ship-to-ship (STS) operation to the world's first LNG-fuelled aframax which it has chartered in from Russian shipowner Sovcomflot (SCF Group).

Shell used its own LNG bunker vessel, the 6,500-cbm Cardissa (built 2017), to fuel Sovcomflot's 114,000-dwt, ice-class 1A newbuilding Gagarin Prospect in the first STS LNG bunkering in the Port of Rotterdam.