Major South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean Co. said Thursday (October 9) it has won a 1.69 trillion-won (US$1.25 billion) order to build six liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual-fuel container vessels from a European shipper according to Yonhap.
Hanwha Ocean will construct six 15,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) LNG dual-fuel container ships at its dockyard on the southern island of Geoje, the company revealed in a regulatory filing.
The vessel is scheduled to be delivered by December 2028 to an undisclosed client in Europe.
It is understood that this container vessel order is the second order received by Hanwha Ocean this month.
A few days ago (October 2), Hanwha Ocean signed a contract with Japan’s MOL for the construction of a liquefied natural gas floating storage and regasification unit (LNG-FSRU) with an order value of about $410 million, which is expected to be delivered in October 2027.
So far this year, Hanwha Ocean has bagged $7.35 billion worth of orders to build a total of 37 vessels, far exceeding $3.5 billion for the whole of 2023.