Naming ceremony for latest SCF LNG carrier
The vessel will operate under a long-term time charter agreement with Total and the ceremony took place on 4 February at Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries’ shipyard, Republic of Korea.
Sergey Frank, chairman of the board of directors of PAO Sovcomflot, said, “Sovcomflot and Total have enjoyed a strong partnership for many years, and we are happy to have an opportunity to expand this cooperation.
“Sovcomflot is proud that back in 2017, the world’s first icebreaking LNG carrier was named after Christophe de Margerie, the late head of Total who had made a major contribution to the development of relations between our nations.”
The SCF La Perouse is a new-generation Atlanticmax LNG carrier with a cargo capacity of 174,000 cubic metres. The vessel features a slow-speed dual-fuel X-DF engine and gas boil-off partial liquefaction system. Currently, Sovcomflot has two more similar LNG carriers under construction, scheduled for delivery during the second half of 2020.
Jean-François de la Pérouse (1741-1788) was a prominent French explorer, who from 1785 led a major scientific expedition around the Pacific. His name was given to the strait between the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaido, connecting the Sea of Okhotsk with the Sea of Japan.
