SHANGHAI: Four liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers, each able to hold 174,000 cubic meters of LNG, will be constructed by China State Shipbuilding Corp’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co Ltd, CSSC and Qatar Energy jointly announced.
The LNG tankers are among the first batch of some 100 LNG tankers ordered by Qatar Energy.The shipbuilding contracts clinched by CSSC are credited to Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding’s advanced design concept, excellent shipbuilding capability and complete service system in competing with global peers, and this is also regarded as recognition of China’s shipbuilding manufacturing prowess, experts said.