Update: Jag Laadki Captain Banned from Fujairah
One of the world’s largest most advanced LNG carriers has suffered some serious damage after being involved in a collision with an oil tanker off Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.
Photos of the LNG carrier, revealed as the Al Khattiya, show the vessel was damaged to its starboard side from what looks like the bow of the tanker.
The 210,000 CBM Q-Flex LNG carrier Al Khattiya was delivered in 2009 by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in South Korea. The vessel is owned by the Qatari gas shipping company Nakilat and managed by Shell International Trading and Shipping Company (Stasco), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell.
Stasco confirmed the incident in a statement to the media. The company said two of the LNG carrier’s ballast tanks were breached in the collision, but the LNG cargo tanks are secure and there is no breach of the vessel’s super cooled LNG containment system.
“Two of Al Khattiya’s ballast tanks were breached with a loss of some ballast water,” Stasco said. “Cargo tank pressures are stable indicating that there is no loss of LNG containment from the cargo tanks on Al Khattiya.”
No pollution or injuries have been reported.
The oil tanker involved in the incident is reported to be the Jag Laadki, operated by India’s Great Eastern Shipping, however gCaptain has been unable to indepently verify this information.
According to AIS data both the Al Khattiya and the Jag Laadki remained at anchor off Fujairah as of Monday.
Q-Flex LNG carriers are among the largest and most sophisticated LNG carriers in the world, with cargo capacity ranging from 210,000 cubic meters to 217,000 cubic meters in volume.
Join the gCaptain Club for curated content, insider opinions, and vibrant community discussions.
Join the 109,251 members that receive our newsletter.
Have a news tip? Let us know.
A Norwegian shipping company on Friday rejected an accusation from Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, that it refused to rescue sailors from a sinking Russian cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
Israel struck multiple targets in Yemen it said were controlled by Houthis, the last of the Iran-backed groups still fully engaged in the regional war that began 14 months ago.
China said on Monday it had provided information and documents for an open investigation into the severing of two Baltic Sea undersea cables, though it and Sweden disagreed over how transparent Beijing had been in the case.
Maritime and offshore news trusted by our 109,251 members delivered daily straight to your inbox.
Essential news coupled with the finest maritime content sourced from across the globe.
Sign Up
Join The Club
