Stena Bulk has managed to delay declaration dates on a set of LNG newbuilding berths.

The Swedish shipowner is understood to have extended letters of intent on two pairs of vessels at Samsung Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering into the middle of June.

The company, which is sitting on berths for two 174,000-cbm vessels at DSME and a pair of 160,000-cbm ships at SHI, had been expected to declare on at least two of the slots during April.