A first floating storage and regasification unit for Karpowership-Mitsui OSK Lines joint venture KARMOL has arrived in Brazil and is preparing to start supplying regasified LNG to four powerships from July.

The 127,452-cbm KARMOL LNGT Powership Asia (built 1991), which is a conversion of the LNG carrier Northwest Shearwater, arrived off Rio de Janeiro on 11 May.