Comments on: And here’s another LNG tanker off Mellieha – is it the same one travelling about or is there a nest somewhere?

By: clay

clay — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 01:57:49 +0000

I know that ship well. I help build it in the 70s, good to see it still in service after all the years.

By: Zaren

Zaren — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:13:43 +0000

Ma tafux li issa gej l-Ghid? Dak figolla bil-bajd b’kollox, ghal wahda, tnejn, tlieta erba’ jekk mhux hamsa. L-Ghid it-tajjeb.

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:35:38 +0000

In reply to Gaetano Pace.

There were 9 LNG carriers originally built by the GD Quincy shipyard between 1977 and 1980. The shipyard went bankrupt a couple of years after.

These were Aries, Capricorn, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Taurus, Virgo and finally Abuja and Edo.

Some have been scrapped or are lying idle and a couple have been converted to FSRUs.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:52:06 +0000

In reply to watchful eye. The Gemini has no engines so it cannot navigate under its own steam; it will be towed to Malta. This is its sister ship, the Capricorn.

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:28:39 +0000

In reply to Francis Saliba M.D.. Resignation is not in the Labour lexicon, dictionary, vocabulary. There is only the deep regret of the Minister of Education who publicly expresses his opinion of "Shame, the culture of resignation has not shed roots in this country." If only it did who would be the first to go ?

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:24:16 +0000

LNG Gemini and LNG Capricorn are sister ships, built by the same yard in the States and owned by the same German company. They were also built in the same year some 40 odd years ago.

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:54:26 +0000

This is the movement.

It is the same ship.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:14.9055/centery:35.94517/zoom:8/mmsi:538001387

By: Francis Saliba M.D.

Francis Saliba M.D. — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:55:03 +0000

There is no need for all this transparency (lack thereof) in the creation of this LNG tanker hazard with unseemly haste inside Marsaxlokk harbour.

This unnecessary danger is being created only “in aid of” Joseph Muscat who otherwise would need to resign, to keep his pre-election promise, if he did not succeed to reduce the electricity rates within the next few days.

I suggest that the Maltese nation issue a collective waiver to Muscat exempting him from the ethical need to keep his solemn promise to resign. This would go a long away towards reducing the risk of instant extinction of the population around Marsaxlokk Bay and of the power supply to the whole island.

Let us be blunt. if the Hon Minister Mallia did not keep his promise to resign if the IIP scheme was tied up with a Malta residence of even one day it would be foolish to expect his chief, the Hon Prime Minister, to resign if the Maltese were not provided with cheap electricity by the end of this month.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:21:04 +0000

In reply to ciccio. Jozef, Mosta did not move, but are we sure they did not steal the church and cloned it?

By: Jozef

Jozef — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:56:14 +0000

In reply to ciccio. 'LNG Capricorn is in Malta somewhere'. And I thought Mosta had moved this afternoon.