{"id":10042,"date":"2016-07-28T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/07\/28\/handling-lng-carriers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:56:29","slug":"handling-lng-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/handling-lng-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling LNG carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The terminal currently imports up to 2.5m tonnes of LNG a year which is used in central Chile.<\/p>\n<p>SAAM held a naming ceremony for the two tugs, Yunco and Huaraivo, at the Port of Valparaiso in front of local authorities, the navy, customers, suppliers and team members.<\/p>\n<p>The two tugs are equipped with winches to escore larger ships and will provide a full range of ship-handling services at GNL Quintero.<\/p>\n<p>They will be deployed anywhere along South America\u2019s west coast and delivery of the tugs included a 60-day trip across the Pacific Ocean from China are Yunco and Huaraivo were built at Bonny Fair Development shipyard.<\/p>\n<p>Operator SAAM hopes that the vessels will boost safety at the LNG terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GNL Quintero, the first of three LNG terminals built in Chile, will soon welcome the services of two new RAstar 3200-class tugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10044,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042\/revisions\/10044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10042"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}