China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Delivers its First LNG Newbuild

China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Delivers its First LNG Newbuild

Chinese shipbuilding’s efforts to chip away at South Korea’s domination of the LNG carrier market took another step forward as Dalian Shipbuilding delivered its first newbuild LNG carrier. The vessel is the first of eight being built for China Merchants Energy Shipping and is being highlighted as DSCI’s first independently designed vessel in this key segment of the industry. Parent company China State Shipbuilding Company hailed the vessel as pa…