1. MENA LNG Exporters Set To Lose Market Share

    ...curity issues causing operator Total to halt production earlier this week. Yemen LNG exported 6.27mn tons for 2014, down 0.6mn tons on 2013. In 2014, global LNG imports reached 239.2mn tons, up 1% from 2013 but still below the 2011 levels, when LNG demand from Japan, the world’s largest importer, ro...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 16
    Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015
  2. Suez Revenue Steady

    ...2013. For gross tonnage (including vessel weight), the 2013 figure of 915mn t is just down on 2011’s record 929mn t. The average size of vessels using the canal is rising. Despite record cargo and revenues holding steady, the total number of ships using the canal has fallen in each of the last fi...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 16
    Published at Fri, 18 Apr 2014
  3. Qatar’s Nakilat Faces LNG Market Challenges

    ...766mn ($210.4mn) compared with QR833.1mn ($228.9mn) in 2011, an 8% year-on-year reduction attributable to higher operational and administrative costs in 2012.   Nakilat’s fleet consists of 25 wholly-owned vessels, of which 14 are Q-Max and 11 are Q-Flex, and 29 jointly-owned vessels.  The port of Ra...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 16
    Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2013
  4. Turkey Green Lights Bosphorus By-Pass Canal Mega-Project

    ...s modern reincarnation, the initiative was proposed by Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayip Erdogan, who dubbed it his “crazy project” during his 2011 election campaign. Plans for a major 1.5mn b/d pipeline from the Black Sea port of Samsun to the Mediterranean export terminal of Ceyhan have not pr...

    Volume: 56
    Issue: 16
    Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2013