LNG

March 4 (LNGJ) - Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan is considering plans to construct liquefied natural gas carriers at a newly completed shipyard dock in northeast China as the company moves to reduce costs. The Chinese shipyard at Dalian in Liaoning Province has just completed the building of a second dock measuring 550 metres by 68 metres. The site is operated by Dalian Cosco KHI Ship Engineering, an existing joint venture between Kawasaki and China Cosco Shipping. Kawasaki currently builds its LNG carriers in Japan at its Sakaide shipyard in the western prefecture of Kagawa.

Mitsui OSK Lines, the Japanese shipping company and LNG fleet owner, has held a naming ceremony in South Korea for an ice-breaking LNG carrier to deliver shipments to Asia from the Russian Yamal LNG export plant in Siberia.