Samsung Heavy Industries announced that it has won an order to construct three LNG carriers for an Asian shipping company.

The order total amounts to US$ 620 million.

The LNG carriers will have a capacity of 174,000 m3 and will be delivered by 2018.

On 7 October, the South Korean shipbuilder won another order worth US$ 440 million to build three ice-class shuttle tankers for Russia’s Sovcomflot.


Adapted from press release by Katie Woodward