The world's largest Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit, the M026 FPSO, set sail on Monday from a dock in Qidong City in east China's Jiangsu Province, setting a new tonnage towing record along the Yangtze River.
The M026 FPSO is 335.31 meters in length, 60 meters in width, and 33.515 meters in height.
The towing convoy, spanning 784.2 meters in length, comprised the M026 FPSO, along with patrol boats, tugboats, and escort vessels.
Built by COSCO (Qidong) Offshore Offshore Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., the vessel will be deployed in an ultra-deep-water oil development project in Brazil.
Known as a "floating refinery", the vessel holds the record for the largest tonnage and highest storage capacity in its class. It is designed to produce 180,000 barrels of oil per day, process 12 million standard cubic meters of natural gas, and store up to 1.4 million barrels of crude oil.
World’s largest FPSO vessel sets sail from Jiangsu
World’s largest FPSO vessel sets sail from Jiangsu
A China-Japan economic and trade exchange meeting, along with a promotional event for the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE), was held in Tokyo on Monday.
Notable attendees included Ren Hongbin, chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), as well as Nobuyuki Hirano and Takuya Shimamura, vice chairmen of the Japan-China Economic Association.
At the meeting, Ren emphasized that the CCPIT and the organizer of the CISCE have cultivated strong cooperative ties with Japanese organizations, including the Japan-China Economic Association, for a long time, creating valuable platforms for cooperation between Chinese and Japanese companies and fostering win-win relationship between the China-Japan business communities.
Ren extended invitation to more Japanese companies and organizations to participate in this year's CISCE, which will be held in Beijing in July. He also invited Japanese business representatives to visit the China Pavilion at the 2025 Osaka Expo to be held from April to October.
Unlike the previous two expos, which were held at the end of November, this year's CISCE will take place earlier to meet the expectations of global participants.
Promotional event for 3rd China Int'l Supply Chain Expo held in Tokyo
