TotalEnergies has cut its shortlist of shipowners bidding to build and supply a chartered LNG bunker vessel from five to two.

Those following the process named Bernhard Schulte of Germany and Spain’s maritime-focused Grupo Ibaizabal as the final two.

This would imply that Dutch shipowner Anthony Veder, Avenir LNG and Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines, which were shortlisted earlier, are no longer in the running for the work.