Sovcomflot (SCF) has released Q3 results to end-September showing that time-charter equivalent (TCE) revenue increased 22% year-on-year to $1.07bn while net profit more than doubled to $249.5m.

Technology group Wärtsilä reports that it has been contracted to install integrated bridge systems (IBS) on five ice-breaking LNG carriers under construction for the Arctic LNG-2 project at the Salmanovsky gas field in the Gydan Peninsula.

Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry and CSSC Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding inked LNG carrier construction and repair cooperation framework agreement.

CDB Leasing (International) Company, wholly-owned subsidiary of China Development Bank Leasing, has entered into a vessel purchase agreement with CMB International Leasing Management Limited to acquire an LNG vessel for $154.5m.

Flex LNG has entered into a long term time-charter agreement with global commodity trader Gunvor for a newbuild LNG carrier.

Russia’s Sovcomflot has inked lease financing and long term time-charter agreements with financial institution VEB.RF Group for its first in a series of icebreaking LNG carrier to be built to serve the Arctic LNG 2 project.

Six Chinese firms and Lloyd’s Register (LR) have signed an agreement to design and develop the first 220,000 cu m LNG carrier with a GTT Mark III membrane containment system.The Chinese companies include Cosco Shipping LNG Investment (Shanghai) Co...

Greece’s Maran Gas Maritime has ordered a new LNG carrier at South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), making this its fifth LNG carrier newbuild order at the shipyard.Maran Gas Maritime, the gas shipping unit of Angelicoussis...

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) named a pair of LNG carrier newbuildings for Tokyo Gas at Japan Marine United’s Tsu Shipyard on Wednesday.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has announced on Sunday an order win for a 174,000-cu m LNG carrier, bringing its recent newbuilding orders to a total value of KRW700bn ($630m).