Job hunting going well for new Cardiff Marine ships

Cardiff Marine appears to be closing in on a charter for the first of its LNG newbuildings.

Company officials are said to have been dropping hints that the 159,800-cbm vessel will shortly be committed and a second ship may also be under discussion.

A charterer’s name has yet to emerge in connection with the duo, however.

The George Economou-controlled shipowner is believed to have been in talks with Russia’s Sakhalin Energy, which recently fixed the Greek company’s first secondhand LNG buy, the 149,172-cbm Fuji LNG (ex Muscat LNG, built 2004).

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