Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French maritime LNG storage technology company, has received another order from the China Merchants Heavy Industry shipyard in the eastern province of Jiangsu for the tank design of a new LNG carrier as its orders stack up.
Deltamarin, the Finnish ship design company based in the port of Turku and which is part of the China Merchants Group conglomerate headquartered in Hong Kong, has received approvals in principle from the Nordic DNV classification society.
DNV GL, the European maritime classification society and risk management company with widespread operations in the LNG sector, said its name would change to DNV from March 2021.
The French containership line, CMA CGM, has taken delivery of its third Ultra Large LNG-powered containership, named the “CMA CGM Palais Royal”, from the Chinese Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding group's Jiangnan shipyard in Shanghai.
Wison Offshore and Marine, the owner of the Chinese shipyard at Nantong in Jiangsu province, held a ground-breaking ceremony for work to start on the modernization of the yard’s LNG shipbuilding capability as part of a national high-tech industrial development zone.