US-listed Navigator Holdings and Malaysia’s Bumi Armada have agreed to work on a potential carbon shipping project in the UK for Uniper.

The international energy company wants the shipowners’ joint venture Bluestreak CO2 to explore the feasibility of building a jetty-moored floating liquid CO2 storage facility and a fleet of liquid CO2 (LCO2) ships.

These ships will export carbon dioxide from Uniper’s proposed power station carbon capture project on the Isle of Grain, Kent.