There were several firsts being referenced at the naming ceremony of two pioneering liquid ethylene gas (LEG) carriers on Teesside, on the UK’s northeast coast.

It was the first time in the port’s 200-year history that it had hosted a double naming ceremony and, for Wouter Vermijs, the director of supply chain for chemicals in Europe at the vessels’charterer, Saudi Basic Industries Coro (Sabic), it was the first time he had attended such an event in 25 years of working in the chemicals industry.

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