LNG Shipping

NYK Line has announced that it has signed a long-term contract with Total Gas & Power Chartering Ltd, a subsidiary of Total.

ABS has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Marine Equipment Research Institute to create a new facility dedicated to improving the safety of LNG as fuel.

Tellurian Trading has entered into a MOU with Vitol to supply 1.5 million tpy of LNG from its LNG offtake capacity at the proposed Driftwood LNG export terminal.

ADNOC Logistics & Services and INPEX Corporation have signed a framework agreement for an LNG bunkering partnership in the UAE.

Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. has taken delivery of the ‘Höegh Gannet’, its ninth FSRU.

Inflated LNG spot charter prices are easing as an increasing number of tankers are becoming available for deliveries.

South Korea’s EPIK has signed an agreement with the Port of Newcastle to develop a FSRU import terminal.

GTT has announced that it has received an order from the Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries for the tank design of a new 174 000 m3 LNG carrier, on behalf of the Greek shipowner Minerva.

Reuters reports that an LNG vessel, the Maria Energy, arrived at Cheniere Energy Inc’s US$15 billion Corpus Christi LNG export facility.

Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd has announced that Håvard Furu has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer of Höegh LNG AS effective 1 March 2019.

CIMC has announced that, in a first for the industry, 130 LNG tank containers have been delivered from the Port of Yangpu of Hainan Province to the Port of Jinzhou, China.

Petronas LNG and Vitol Asia have announced the signing of a binding HoA for a long-term LNG SPA.

Hoegh LNG is expecting to extend its contract with CNOOC and to sign additional deals.

Matson has welcomed the first of four new dual-fuel ships that will be introduced in its Hawaii service over the next two years.

Baleària has launched the ‘Marie Curie’ from the Cantiere Navale Visentini shipyard in Italy.