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Christened two ships LNG constructed by Samsung Heavy Industries
Of NYK property, Mitsui & Co. and Teekay, will be used for the produced which liquified natural gas transport in Angola
August 24, 2011
In recent days in the ship yard in the Geoje Shipyard of the South Korean group Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) two ships for which liquified natural gas constructed on behalf of Japanese NYK are christened LNG (Atlantic) Ltd. of the group Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Mitsui & Co. and of the Canadian Teekay Corporation.
The two new ships, called Soyo and Malanje, have a tonnage of 100.800 tons, are long 285,0 meters, wide 43,4 meters and are rented to the Angola American LNG Supply Services (ALSS) that producing in Angola from Angola will use them in order to transport the liquified natural gas LNG Ltd., consortium participated from Sonangol (22.8%) and branches of the groups Chevron (36.4%), Total (13.6%), BP (13.6%) and ENI (13.6%).
The property of Soyo and the Malanje is for 33% of the NYK LNG (Atlantic), for 34% of Mitsui & Co. and for 33% of the Teekay. The first ship will be completed next tuesday, second on 30 September next one.
Soyo and the Malanje are the first two of a series of four twin ships of the ability to 160.000 cubic metres under construction in the yard Geoje Shipyard that are rented to the ALSS for a period 20-year-old for the transport of the which liquified natural gas from Angola. The American ALSS has taken rental also three ships of the same ability under construction near the South Korean yard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Machine Engineering Co. (DSME) on behalf of the Sonangol Holding Shipping Ltd., ships that will be operated by the Chevron Shipping on behalf of the Sonangol Shipping.
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In recent days in the ship yard in the Geoje Shipyard of the South Korean group Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) two ships for which liquified natural gas constructed on behalf of Japanese NYK are christened LNG (Atlantic) Ltd. of the group Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Mitsui & Co. and of the Canadian Teekay Corporation.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
