Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) announced that the LNG carrier CESI Wenzhou, which was ordered by the joint venture of China COSCO Shipping and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC), was delivered at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding on January 31.
The CESI Wenzhou will be the fifth vessel to serve the LNG transport project for SINOPEC, which was announced in April of 2013, and will transport LNG that SINOPEC will purchase from the Australia Pacific LNG Project.
Overall, six LNG carriers have been built at Hudong for this project, following the ExxonMobil LNG project, in March 2010, in which four newbuilding LNG carriers were used.
“MOL has assigned engineers to Hudong to ensure the safe construction of high-quality LNG carriers, and organized a multi-national shipbuilding supervision team, mainly Japanese and Chinese, with nearly 50 members at its peak,” MOL said.
The first vessel was delivered in October 2016, with the project proceeding smoothly.
On January 25, COSCO Shipping Energy, Sinopec and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), held a naming ceremony of the LNG carrier “Cesi Wenzhou”, at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China.
