Sinopec Gets 4th Carrier for APLNG
Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced that the LNG carrier CESI Tianjin, which was ordered by the joint venture of MOL, China COSCO Shipping Corporation and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), was delivered at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding September 26.
The CESI Tianjin is the fourth vessel to serve the LNG transport project for Sinopec announced in April 2013, and will sail under a long-term charter contract to transport LNG that Chinese state-owned Sinopec will purchase from the Australia Pacific LNG project, MOL said September 27.
The vessel has a tank capacity of 174,100 m3 and will be 20% owned by MOL and 80% by China Energy Shipping Investment Company.
A total of six newbuilding LNG carriers are being built at Hudong. The first vessel, the CESI Gladstone was delivered in October 2016, the second, the CESI Qingdao in January 2017, and the third, the CESI Beihai, in June 2017. The remaining two are scheduled to be delivered next year.
MOL takes a proactive stance in acquiring new projects while newly leveraging this experience in international joint projects, and strives to offer value-added transport services to customers all over the world.
Separately, MOL said September 28 that, ten days previously, the MOL-operated LNG carrier Papua safely rescued four yachtsmen off Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Shardul Sharma