http://www.rivieramm.com Riviera Maritime Media Ltd was established in December 2001, emerging from an earlier partnership which was formed in 1997 to buy and publish Speed at Sea journal. RMM specialises in maritime information, publishing a range of maritime technical journals, holding related events, and supplying shipping data. en-gb 12/03/2010 13:28:51 15 http://www.rivieramm.com http://www.rivieramm.com Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines is broadening its business of hauling liquefied petroleum gas under spot agreements, adding three shipping carriers to increase its designated fleet to 15 from 12. The ... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Mitsui-OSK-expands-LPG-carrier-fleet-7310 /article/Mitsui-OSK-expands-LPG-carrier-fleet-7310 26/02/2010 00:00:00 Ships Shekou Southern China LPG Shipping has ordered three 3,700m3 fully pressurised LPG carriers at the Taizhou Wuzhou Shipbuilding Co Ltd yard as part of a fleet renewal programme. The vessels, which are ... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Shekou-Southern-orders-coastal-trio-at-Taizhou-Wuzhou-7249 /article/Shekou-Southern-orders-coastal-trio-at-Taizhou-Wuzhou-7249 12/02/2010 00:00:00 Ships Months after selling Vidzeme (pictured) and Kurzeme, its two remaining LPG carriers, Latvian Shipping has returned to the gas carrier sector by ordering two 20,500m3 semi-pressurised/fully refrigerate... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Latvian-Shipping’s-LPG-sabbatical-is-short-lived-7085 /article/Latvian-Shipping’s-LPG-sabbatical-is-short-lived-7085 08/01/2010 00:00:00 News Luxembourg-based shipping investment company Jaccar Holdings and German shipowner Hartmann Schiffahrts have reportedly ordered six 5,000m3 pressurised LPG carriers from Sinopacific, according to the w... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Joint-venture-orders-six-LPG-carriers-6934 /article/Joint-venture-orders-six-LPG-carriers-6934 03/12/2009 00:00:00 News Stolt-Nielsen Gas Ltd, a subsidiary of Stolt-Nielsen SA, has taken the 10-year old, very large gas carrier (VLGC) Yuhsho (pictured) on a three-year time charter, The agreement, with Yuyo Steamship Co ... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Stolt-enters-LPG-trades-with-Yuhsho-charter-6779 /article/Stolt-enters-LPG-trades-with-Yuhsho-charter-6779 04/11/2009 14:25:00 News The decision by Todd Energy to build a US$65 million LPG production plant in Taranaki will ensure that New Zealand regains its status as one of the Australasian region’s net LPG exporters when t... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/New-Zealand-poised-to-regain-LPG-export-status-6712 /article/New-Zealand-poised-to-regain-LPG-export-status-6712 22/10/2009 00:00:00 News PT Berlian Laju Tanker (BLT), the Indonesian tanker shipping company, has announced plans to purchase the Copenhagen-based Camillo Eitzen & Co (CECO) organisation. The acquisition will be made through... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/BLT-and-Eitzen-form-chemship-and-gas-carrier-giant-6660 /article/BLT-and-Eitzen-form-chemship-and-gas-carrier-giant-6660 09/10/2009 00:00:00 News StealthGas has extended the charter agreements for a number of its LPG carriers. In September, Gas Prodigy commenced a one month time charter to an Asian national oil company. The charterer has the op... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/StealthGas-renews-LPG-carrier-charters-6645 /article/StealthGas-renews-LPG-carrier-charters-6645 06/10/2009 00:00:00 News In the past few months Petredec Ltd, a Bermuda based LPG shipowner, has taken delivery of two 22,000m3 semi-ref LPG carriers. Desert Orchid (pictured) was put into service in China in June and sister ... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/First-LPG-carriers-from-new-Jiangnan-Shipyard-facility-6357 /article/First-LPG-carriers-from-new-Jiangnan-Shipyard-facility-6357 14/09/2009 00:00:00 News Transpetro invited tendering bids for eight gas carrier ships for its Fleet Modernisation and Expansion Programme (Promef) on 27 August. Ten Brazilian shipyards and nine foreign shipyards will be invi... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Transpetro-opens-bidding-for-Promef-gas-carriers-6335 /article/Transpetro-opens-bidding-for-Promef-gas-carriers-6335 28/08/2009 00:00:00 News Barbados-based Carib LPG Trading has received a contract from Jamaican petroleum refinery Petrojam to transport LPG to Jamaica. The order calls for the transportation of 55,000 barrels of LPG per mon... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Boost-for-Caribbean-LPG-transport-6227 /article/Boost-for-Caribbean-LPG-transport-6227 12/08/2009 00:00:00 News The Association of Norwegian Maritime Exporters (NME) appointed a new managing director, Ole Henæs (pictured), on 3 August. Mr Henæs takes over the leadership of the member-based organisat... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/New-MD-for-NME-6224 /article/New-MD-for-NME-6224 11/08/2009 00:00:00 News The delivery of the 60,000m3 Jenny N by Hyundai Heavy Industries has completed a major newbuilding programme by the yard comprising 12 fully refrigerated LPG carriers for operation in the Internationa... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Jenny-N-completes-IGC-newbuilding-programme-6025 /article/Jenny-N-completes-IGC-newbuilding-programme-6025 22/07/2009 00:00:00 News Indonesia is poised to import 900,000 tonnes of LPG this year in order to meet a burgeoning domestic demand which is being driven by the government’s kerosene-to-LPG conversion programme introdu... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Indonesia’s-LPG-imports-overtake-exports-5403 /article/Indonesia’s-LPG-imports-overtake-exports-5403 01/07/2009 00:00:00 News CB&I has been awarded a US$50 million contract valued by Flota Petrolera Ecuatoriana (FLOPEC) to design and build storage facilities for an LPG import terminal at Monteverde in Ecuador, 100 miles ... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/CB&I-to-build-Ecuadorian-LPG-terminal-4168 /article/CB&I-to-build-Ecuadorian-LPG-terminal-4168 05/06/2009 00:00:00 News BW Gas has taken delivery of the 83,800m3 very large gas carrier (VLGC) BW Austria (pictured), the last LPG carrier on its current orderbook, from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). ... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/BW-Austria-completes-BW-Gas-LPG-newbuild-programme-3632 /article/BW-Austria-completes-BW-Gas-LPG-newbuild-programme-3632 22/05/2009 00:00:00 News The forthcoming update, in 2010, of the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) Convention will highlight for the first time specific basic requirements for gas carr... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Transas-introduces-ethylene-simulator-3113 /article/Transas-introduces-ethylene-simulator-3113 14/05/2009 00:00:00 Training Ethylene carriers have become an increasingly distinctive segment of the gas carrier fleet, following the delivery of 38 such ships in the last two years Every sector of the gas shipping industry has... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/The-year-of-the-ethylene-carrier-3165 /article/The-year-of-the-ethylene-carrier-3165 12/05/2009 09:09:00 editor’s foreword Pianura, which operates a fleet of semi-ref gas carriers with the ‘Star’ suffix, enjoys good charterer support for its sophisticated vessels One year ago LPG World Shipping reported that ... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/Stars-shine-for-Pianura-3166 /article/Stars-shine-for-Pianura-3166 12/05/2009 09:09:00 shipowners The LPG fleet grew by 13.7 per cent in 2008, the highest annual expansion in 30 years. As LPG demand falters, VLGC rates have plummeted The Baltic LPG Index for very large gas carrier (VLGC) rates Ar... http://www.rivieramm.com/article/LPG-fleet-surges-as-trade-stutters-3167 /article/LPG-fleet-surges-as-trade-stutters-3167 12/05/2009 09:09:00 deepsea LPG trades