WindWings Eyed for Next-Generation HD Hyundai LNG Carrier
Korean Register, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, BAR Technologies and the Liberian Registry are teaming up to study the use of large wing sails on a new generation of LNG carriers.
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) announced today in an exchange filing it has won a newbuild order for two LNG carriers from an undisclosed client for a total consideration of 455.7 billion KRW (USD $423 million).
Deliveries of the two vessels are planned to be completed by the end of October 2017.
For DSME, this latest order brings their total sales to 15.3 trillion KRW.
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