Ice-breaking LNG tanker First port to Japan via the Arctic Ocean Route 17:47, July 23
LNG = liquefied natural gas loaded ice-breaking tanker produced in Russia's Arctic Circle, arrived at the port of Japan for the first time on the 23rd via the Arctic Sea route connecting Asia and Europe in the shortest time.
On the 23rd, the vessel that entered the LNG receiving terminal in Yokohama-shi was Vladimir Lusanov, an ice-breaking LNG tanker jointly owned by a major shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines with a Chinese company.
It took about two weeks from the gas field on the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic via the Arctic Ocean route. This is the first time that an ice-breaking LNG tanker has arrived at a Japanese port.
The tanker is 299 meters long and 50 meters wide, and because it breaks ice in the Arctic Ocean, it moves sharply, and there is also a control room in the rear so that it can move backward when it is blocked by thick ice. The feature is that it is provided.
The ice-breaking LNG tanker has a heavier hull than a normal LNG tanker and has poor fuel economy, and so far, there have been few opportunities to fly from gas fields in the Arctic to Asia.
It is said that a huge amount of natural gas is stored in the Arctic region of Russia, and companies such as Japan, China, and France are also participating in the LNG development plan around the Yamal Peninsula.
Russia has a plan to build a facility for transshipping LNG from ice-breaking tankers to ordinary tankers on the Kamchatka Peninsula, where the Arctic Ocean route runs, and is committed to exporting LNG to Japan and other Asian countries.