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The ship was christened Raquel Knutsen. The ceremony was attended by KNOT president Trygve Seglem, NYK senior managing corporate officer Hitoshi Nagasawa, and NYK corporate officer Svein Steimler.
Raquel Knutsen will be delivered to Repsol Sinopec Brasil and will be chartered for a maximum 15-year period for transportation of crude oil located off Brazil.
The ship is a 152,000 DWT Suezmax shuttle tanker equipped with a class 2 dynamic positioning system and a bow-loading system. A class 2 dynamic positioning system is a more redundant dynamic-positioning system that duplicates all equipment and wiring so that no single fault in an active system will cause the system to fail. A Bow-loading system carries out cargo operations along the bow of a shuttle tanker without contact between the tanker and the offloading unit (mainly FPSO units) in harsh sea conditions. Such a system also allows cargo hoses to be connected or disconnected from offloading units more easily than usual so that the shuttle tanker may evacuate quickly in case of an emergency.
After this delivery, the KNOT Group will have 29 shuttle tankers in operation and on order, and the group’s offshore business will resultantly expand with a focus on crude-oil transport from the North Sea and the waters off Brazil.
In accordance with its “More Than Shipping 2018” medium-term management plan, NYK will continue its efforts to provide stable and economical energy-transport services in both the shuttle tanker and offshore business fields.