It seems cake making is not just confined to ships and shipowners these days.
Take a look at this beauty from Sabetta in Russia, baked to celebrate the start of LNG production from the Yamal LNG project’s third train late last week.
On Watch is assured the wording reads something along the lines of “Go ahead third train”, and is that a discrete gas tap on the top left of the cake in blue and yellow to represent the turning on of supply?
LNG aficionados will note the careful lettering of -163C around the edges of the cake, detailing the temperature at which LNG is stored, and surely those are the bows of two vessels wrapped around the lower layers.
The colourful macaroons remain something of a mystery, although one thought is that they are the culinary equivalent of the crowds cheering Yamal’s latest milestone.
Second celebration
While the start-up of the project’s third 5.5 million tonnes per annum liquefaction train was clearly the main event last week, Yamal also had something else to shout about.
One of the project’s ice-breaking LNG carriers, the MOL and China Cosco Shipping newbuilding Vladimir Rusanov, transshipped a cargo from Sabetta in to Sovcomflot (SCF Group)’s ship Pskov, which is on charter to Yamal Trade.
On Watch wonders what a first open-water cake looks like.
