{"id":2169,"date":"2019-06-25T05:14:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2019-06-25T05:14:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:14:07","slug":"desgagnes-christens-launches-polar-class-tanker-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/desgagnes-christens-launches-polar-class-tanker-duo\/2169\/","title":{"rendered":"Desgagn\u00e9s Christens, Launches Polar Class Tanker Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Canadian shipping company Desgagn\u00e9s held a double christening and inauguration ceremony for its new polar class tankers on June 20.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ceremony for the dual fuel\/LNG vessels Paul A. Desgagn\u00e9s and Rossi A. Desgagn\u00e9s was held at the Port of Quebec. Featuring almost 15,000 dwt and tanks with a capacity of more than 17,000 m\u00b3, the ships were built at the Besiktas shipyard in Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the additions, Desgagn\u00e9s completed its more than CAD 200 million investment plan launched in 2015 for the construction and commissioning of four new vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each vessel represents an investment of CAD 50 million, of which close to CAD 9 million for each ship was solely for the purpose of adding a dual fuel\/LNG engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe addition of the Paul A. Desgagn\u00e9s and the Rossi A. Desgagn\u00e9s demonstrates Desgagn\u00e9s\u2019 vision and leadership in sustainable development in a tangible way, as well as its commitment to its customers to offer a first-class marine petroleum transportation service that represents quality, safety and respects the environment,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Louis-Marie Beaulieu, President and Chief Executive Officer, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previous ships in the series, the Damia Desgagn\u00e9s, the world\u2019s first dual fuel asphalt plant, and the Mia Desgagn\u00e9s, the world\u2019s first dual fuel polar-class petroleum-chemical tanker and sister ship to the two inaugurated today, were christened at the Port of Montreal in 2017 and 2018.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian shipping company Desgagn\u00e9s held a double christening and inauguration ceremony for its new polar class tankers on June 20. The ceremony for the dual fuel\/LNG vessels Paul A. Desgagn\u00e9s and Rossi A. Desgagn\u00e9s was held at the Port of Quebec. Featuring almost 15,000 dwt and tanks with a capacity of more than 17,000 m\u00b3, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20],"tags":[352,351,84,193],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","category-news","tag-canadian","tag-desgagnes","tag-lng-slump","tag-turkish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}