Tag: LNG carriers

Samsung Heavy Industries, announced on Monday that it has signed a joint development agreement with Kongsberg Maritime AS, a Norwegian technology company, to develop next-generation LNG autonomous ships.

HD Hyundai’s subsidiary, Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, and Avikus signed an agreement on March 14th to conduct a fuel-saving verification project using autonomous navigation systems. The project involves five companies, including Pan Ocean, POS SM, Korean Register of Shipping, Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, and Avikus.

South Korea’s Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries will build three LNG carriers for about $765 million under a new order, revealed on Thursday 2 March 2023.

MOL announced that, through a subsidiary, it signed a long-term charter contract for three newbuilding liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers with QatarEnergy.

Bureau Veritas delivered an Approval in Principle to GTT for a new LNG carrier based on a three cargo tanks arrangement.

The LNG tanker "British Sponsor", owned by BP, arrived in Mozambique, to load the first cargoes from Eni’s Coral-Sul FLNG unit.

Dozens of ships carrying LNG are circling off the coasts of Spain and other European countries, not able to secure slots to unload because plants that convert the fuel back to gas are full.

ABS has awarded approval in principle (AIP) to DSME for its hybrid power system, a configuration previously limited to smaller vessels in the maritime marketplace, to aid large LNG carriers.

ABB and MAN Energy Solutions will develop a propulsion solution with the aim to reduce carbon footprint and fuel costs as well as to increase the operating flexibility of liquified natural gas (LNG) carriers.

LR has awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) to Empresa Naviera Elcano for their patented steam-to-hybrid conversion design for the transformation of steam turbine LNG carriers to a dual-fuelled propulsion system.