Tag: ethane carriers

Navigator Holdings Ltd. completed the expansion of its ethylene export terminal joint venture and acquired three handysize ethylene carriers.

Navigator Holdings Ltd., exercised its previously announced option to construct two further liquefied ethylene gas carriers.

ADNOC Logistics & Services has expanded its fleet through multi-billion shipbuilding contracts for 23 new green vessels.

ABS awarded approval in principle (AIP) to two new developments from Jiangnan Shipyard: a new insulation system and a modern design for an ultra large ethane carrier (ULEC).  

ADNOC L&S/Wanhua Chemical Group joint venture, has placed an order for nine Very Large Ethane Carriers and 2-4 Very Large Ammonia Carriers from Jiangnan Shipyard in China.

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) announced that it has recently signed a shipbuilding contract for two very large-scale ethane carriers (VLEC) with an Asian shipping company. The total amount is $340 million.

Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) announced that the 98,000 cubic meter STL Yangtze is the first of six Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLEC) to join its gas fleet.

Seri Everest, the world's largest VLEC, departed the terminal in Texas sailing to China. Loaded with more than 911,000 barrels of ethane destined for Satellite’s Lianyungang ethane cracker in northeastern Jiangsu Province, China, the vessel represents the largest single shipment of ethane to date.

The first of an order of 12 Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLECs) now being built to ABS Class, has been successfully delivered to Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical (STL) by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI).

The major energy provider in maritime solutions, MISC Group, has taken the delivery of its first Very Large Ethane Carrier (VLEC), the largest of its kind globally.