Pacific Gas Carrier (Hong Kong), subsidiary of Shandong Marine Energy, has entered into long-term charter agreement with Ineos for four 98,000 cu m very large ethane carriers (VLEC).

Global Energy Trading (GET) and Stellar Shipmanagement have ordered Singapore’s first dedicated methanol bunker tanker to be built in Japan.

Japanese shipowner NYK has ordered two LNG-fuelled coal carriers from Oshima Shipbuilding.

Cosco Shipping Holdings announced a massive newbuild order for 12 methanol-fuelled, 24,000 teu containerships from Dalian Cosco KHI Shipping Engineering and Nantong KHI Shipping Engineering.

Regional Container Lines (RCL) has named two 12,000 teu boxship newbuildings, the largest vessels in its fleet.

Sembcorp Marine (Sembmarine) will now be acquiring Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) in a restructuring of the two company’s merger which is designed to simplify the transaction.

South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has won a contract for the construction of two LNG carriers worth around $500m (KRW710bn).

In the largest-ever LNG carrier newbuilding project, a series of shipyards and shipowners have chosen WinGD’s latest X72DF-2.1 engines for 25 vessels to be built for QatarEnergy’s North Field East project.

Chinese shipyard, Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, has inked its maiden contract for two 175,000 cu m liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers.

MAN announced it will retrofit two Tianjian Southwest Maritime LPG carriers to run on LPG dual-fuel at COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Guangdong.