SCF Group of Russia has placed an order for the world’s first LNG-fuelled aframax tanker newbuildings in a groundbreaking move made in collaboration with energy major Shell to reduce fuel emissions.

SCF has contracted four firm 114,000-dwt, ice-class IA newbuildings and pencilled in a string of options at Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in South Korea under what the owner and major have dubbed the “Green Funnel” project.

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