• Samsung Heavy Industries announced on 20 December it successfully demonstrated its own BReS, Boil-off gas Recovery System, and received Statement of Fact from ABS. • BReS is a system that recovers boil-off gas that is naturally evaporated in the fuel tank of LNG carriers which are increasing in orders due to strict environmental regulations, and it's a new technology that can reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions from LNG carriers. • Existing systems require lots of time and cost because high-pressure compressors to convert boil-off gas into fuel are exclusively supplied by foreign manufacturers and the systems also emit carbon dioxide in the process of combusting the gas. (....)