Wärtsilä is providing gas handling systems first ever VLECs to be built at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in South Korea for India’s Reliance Group.  

A number of shipowners in the gas sector are eyeing the potential of the nascent ethane shipping and VLEC market on the back of the shale gas revolution.

Jaccar Holdings and Hartmann Group are forming a joint venture in Singapore to commercially manage ethane carriers.

Classification society ABS has been selected to class a series of very large ethane carriers (VLECs) built at Samsung Heavy Industries for India’s conglomerate Reliance.

As US ethane output continues to grow along with the shale gas boom, Lloyd's Register has published an analysis of the ethane market, and the potential development of larger ships to carry ethane as a cargo.

The development of the ethane transport market has been quite dynamic for some time in Europe, but the trend in Asia has been somewhat more measured. This week’s commitment by Reliance Industries to a project to import 1.5m tonnes of ethane to...