A new trade in long-haul ethane shipments was established this year as India’s Reliance Industries put its six very large ethane carriers (VLECs) into operation shipping cargoes from Enterprise Products Partners’ export facility in the US to its Jamnagar refinery in Gujarat.
The first vessel, the 87,749-cbm Ethane Crystal (built 2016), left the US in December and now all of its sisterships are in operation.
