China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) and two partners are working to develop a new multi-fuel electric LNG carrier designed to deliver significant greenhouse gas savings and adopt future decarbonisation technologies.

The shipyard is working with technology group Wartsila and classification society ABS.

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Wartsila said the LNG carrier is designed to be “highly flexible”.