Email signatures these days often come with more than just a company logo, but a whole bar chart is getting serious.

That is just what came through from one senior executive at a well-known Russian shipowning company that has made a pioneering move towards LNG fuelling for tanker tonnage.

Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has just announced a charter deal with Shell for two of six LNG-fuelled aframax newbuildings under construction in South Korea.