![\"Fincantieri](\"https:\/\/cdn.offshorewind.biz\/file\/sites\/6\/2020\/07\/19174403\/Fincantieri-starts-work-on-NorthStars-LNG-bunkering-barge-1024x768.jpg\")
The yard is a part of Fincantieri Marine Group, which is the US division of Italian shipbuilding giant Fincantieri.<\/p>\n
To mark the official construction start of the vessel, the shipbuilder held a private keel-laying ceremony at its Sturgeon Bay shipyard in Wisconsin on June 25.<\/p>\n
Fincantieri said it has carried out pre-fabrication works for several months prior to setting the vessels’ 55-ton module in place.<\/p>\n
To remind, Oaktree Capital Management-backed Northstar formed Polaris and ordered<\/a> the LNG bunkering barge last year.<\/p>\n The owners will name the 103 meters long ABS-classed vessel ‘Clean Canaveral’. <\/p>\n Once delivered, it will operate as an articulated tug and barge unit along the US East Coast.<\/p>\n Besides its bunkering capabilities, the unit can also be used as a small-scale LNG carrier.<\/p>\n It will source the fuel from JAX LNG<\/a>, a production facility in Jacksonville, Florida created through a partnership between NorthStar and Pivotal.<\/p>\n The 5,400 cbm vessel will feature four Type C tanks and a cargo handling system by Finland’s Wartsila.<\/p>\n Fincantieri expects to complete the LNG bunkering barge in late 2021.<\/p>\n The post Fincantieri lays keel for NorthStar’s LNG bunkering barge<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US-based Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding has recently started building an LNG bunkering barge for NorthStar Midstream’s unit Polaris New Energy. Image: Fincantieri Marine Group The yard is a part of Fincantieri Marine Group, which is the US division of Italian shipbuilding giant Fincantieri. To mark the official construction start of the vessel, the shipbuilder held a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[3409,1594,1166,2550,5915,523,9134],"class_list":["post-13898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-barge","tag-bunkering","tag-fincantieri","tag-keel","tag-lays","tag-lng","tag-northstars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}