Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, about 410 km (255 miles) southeast of Seoul. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
SEOUL, July 15 (Reuters) – South Korea plans to construct liquefied natural gas bunkering terminals at some of its ports as part of a drive to dominate the market for building ships fuelled by both oil and gas.
The energy ministry in the world’s biggest shipbuilder said it hoped to win 70 percent of global orders for so-called duel-fuel tankers by 2025.
LNG-fuelled tankers and the bunkering markets to support them are expected to grow rapidly in Europe and China as restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions boost interest in cleaner fuels such as gas.
The ministry said in a statement that it expected the international market for manufacturing LNG-fuelled ships and modifying other vessels to take LNG to soar to a value of nearly 150 trillion won ($130 billion) in around a decade from 6 trillion won now.
“From a long-term perspective, we will build LNG bunkering terminals at the country’s major ports where large vessels arrive and depart,” the ministry said on Wednesday. Bunkering refers to the process of refuelling a ship.
The government plans to add an LNG bunkering terminal to a public gas terminal in the city of Tongyeong, about 370 kilometres south of Seoul, by 2017 with similar facilities in the cities of Gwangyang, Boryeong and Incheon later.
The world’s second-largest LNG importer also plans to start running bunkering shuttles from vessels carrying LNG to those that need it as fuel in 2018.
South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd, Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd are the world’s top three shipbuilders. ($1 = 1,141.1500 won) (Reporting by Meeyoung Cho; Editing by Joseph Radford)
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