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Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) connected Monday (June 8, 2026) said it has secured a 10-year marine services declaration for Argentina's archetypal Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export, marking its introduction into South America and expanding its planetary marine services footprint.
The institution successful a connection said the declaration has been awarded to APSEZ's step-down subsidiary, Adani Harbour International FZCO, done a consortium with Argentina-based Meridian Group, pursuing a planetary competitory tender process conducted by Southern Energy SA (SESA).
The grant strengthens APSEZ's beingness crossed planetary vigor logistics worth chains and underscores its increasing capabilities successful specialised marine services, it added.
Under the agreement, the consortium volition supply end-to-end marine services, including tugboat operations for LNG carriers, offshore logistics and proviso support, and unit transportation services.
The task volition beryllium supported by 4 high-specification tugboats, 1 anchor handling tug proviso vas and 1 unit boat.
Ashwani Gupta, Whole-time Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), APSEZ, said, " With marine operations successful 12 countries and a increasing fleet of marine assets supporting ports, LNG terminals, nationalist lipid companies, refineries and offshore facilities, we bring heavy operational expertise to analyzable maritime environments."
"By combining these capabilities with beardown section partnerships, we are helping make reliable maritime ecosystems that alteration caller vigor commercialized corridors and fortify semipermanent proviso resilience," helium added.
APSEZ said Argentina is emerging arsenic a large caller LNG supplier, with agreements successful spot to enactment exports of up to 10 cardinal tonnes (MT) annually to India from 2027.
The Southern Energy FLNG task is expected to play an important relation successful connecting this increasing proviso basal with planetary request centres.
According to the statement, The Southern Energy FLNG task is being developed by SESA, a associated task betwixt Golar LNG and Pan American Energy (PAE).
Located successful the San Matias Gulf successful Argentina's Rio Negro Province, the task volition liquefy earthy state from the General San Martin pipeline aboard the Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) vas Hilli Episeyo, with commercialized operations expected to statesman successful September 2027.
In its archetypal phase, APSEZ said the task is expected to nutrient 2.45 MT of LNG annually, equivalent to astir 28 cargoes per year, making it Argentina's archetypal operational LNG export project.
The declaration volition beryllium executed done Meridian Transportes Marítimos SA, a 51:49 associated task betwixt Adani Harbour International FZCO and Meridian Group, the institution added.
