LNG

Sept 8 (LNGJ) - Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French designer of LNG storage tanks for ships and for onshore, has signed a technical assistance and licensing agreement with Yangzijiang, the largest private shipyard owner in China and enabling the Chinese company to construct vessels using GTT membrane technologies.

   GTT said that Yangzijiang had already secured an order for four 8,000 twenty-foot unit (TEU) dual-fuelled containerships from Pacific International Lines, a leading shipping company in Asia. The container vessels will have GTT’s LNG fuel tanks. Each fuel tank have GTT’s Mark III membrane containment technology. The delivery of the four vessels is scheduled for each quarter of 2025.

French maritime storage technology company GTT has been chosen to design the fuel tanks of 12 new liquefied natural gas-powered container vessels ordered from China by the global CMA CGM shipping group based in the French port of Marseille.