Samsung Heavy Industries announced today in an exchange filing the winning of a 6-ship LNG carrier newbuild order for a total consideration of KRW 740.7 billion (USD $723,500,000).
The order came in from “Asian Shipowners” and the ships are scheduled to by delivered by January 2017.
No further information was released by the company.
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