Sinopec and transportation partner China Shipping Group have ordered their first LNG carriers, contracting up to six ships at Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding to lift cargoes from the Australia Pacific LNG project.
A shipyard official confirmed to LNG Unlimited that the yard, to date China’s only LNG shipbuilder, has netted a contract to build four 174,000-cbm dual-fuel diesel-electric vessels. It is also holding options for a further two ships.
The first of the firm vessels will be delivered in 2015 with two to follow in 2016 and the final ship plus any option in 2017.
The Sinopec-CSG ships will be the largest LNG carriers built by Hudong and the first DFDE vessels.This
