M/T Tempera

Tempera was a Finnish Aframax crude oil tanker built by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Japan and delivered from its Yokosuka shipyard in late August 2002. She was the world's first double acting tanker, a design from Kvaerner Masa-Yards in which the ship runs bow first in open water and stern first through heavy ice, driven by a 16 megawatt ABB Azipod electric propulsion unit. Fortum Shipping ordered her and her sister Mastera in 2001, and Neste Shipping later managed her, mainly carrying crude oil from Primorsk in Russia to the Porvoo and Naantali refineries all year round. She is 252 metres long and was named Ship of the Year 2002 by the Society of Naval Architects of Japan. Neste sold her to Perenco in 2015, Keppel converted her in Singapore, and she was renamed La Noumbi in 2018 as a floating production unit off the Republic of Congo.