French firm GTT receives storage design order from Chinese shipyard for 10 large LNG-fuelled containerships
Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French LNG storage technology company, has received an order from a Chinese shipyard to design the cryogenic fuel tanks of 10 ultra-large containerships to be powered by LNG as part of the move to cleaner maritime fuel.
GTT China deal
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.
