QatarEnergy awards agreements for 6 ultra-modern QC-Max LNG vessels 

​Doha, Qatar: QatarEnergy selected the joint venture of Japan s Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd. (MOL) and China s COSCO Shipping LNG Investment (Shanghai) (CSLN...

​Doha, Qatar: QatarEnergy selected the joint venture of Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd. (MOL) and China’s COSCO Shipping LNG Investment (Shanghai) (CSLNG) to own and operate six QC-Max size LNG vessels.

The six vessels will be built in China by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). These vessels are the last batch of the 128 LNG vessels in QatarEnergy’s historic ship building program, made up of 104 conventional and 24 QC-Max size ultra-modern vessels.

The long-term Time Charter Party (TCP) agreements were awarded to the shipowners during a special ceremony held at QatarEnergy’s headquarters in Doha under the patronage of HE Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President and CEO of QatarEnergy.

Taking part in the ceremony were Takeshi Hashimoto, the President & Chief Executive Officer of MOL, and Zhang Feng, Vice President of China COSCO Shipping Corporation (the parent company of CSLNG), in the presence of senior executives from both shipowners as well as QatarEnergy and QatarEnergy LNG.