LNG

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding of Japan has held a naming ceremony for the fifth of a series of five liquefied natural gas carriers constructed for Japanese companies to ship  cargoes from the US Gulf Coast to the main import terminals in Japan.

The Qatari Q-Flex liquefied natural gas carrier, the “Al Safliyah”, has become the largest LNG vessel to transit the expanded Panama Canal in a test for future tanker movements that could improve the economics of the export plant build-out on the US Gulf Coast.