Mitsui OSK Delivers Third LNG Carrier to Sinopec

Japanese ship owner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has delivered an LNG carrier, CESI Beihai, to China for a consortium of MOL, China COSCO Shipping and Sinopec, it said June 2.

The carrier was delivered at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai June 1, it said.

CESI Beihai is the third vessel to serve the China FOB Transportation Project announced in April 2013, and will sail under a long-term charter to transport LNG that Sinopec purchases from the Australia Pacific LNG project. Importer Sinopec has a 20-year 7.6mn metric tons/yr contract with supplier APLNG.

CESI Beihai  (Photo credit: Mitsui OSK Lines)

A total of six LNG carriers are being built at Hudong for the project. The first vessel, the CESI Gladstone, was delivered in October last year, and the second, the CESI Qingdao, in January 2017. The remaining three will be delivered in succession by 2018, said MOL.

Shardul Sharma