South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has handed over another 180,000-cbm LNG carrier to Denmark’s Celsius Tankers, a unit of Celsius Shipping.
Celsius Tech, a joint venture of Celsius Shipping and Hong Kong-based Fleet Management, announced the delivery of Celsius Galway in a social media post on Thursday.
The JV will manage this LNG carrier, such as the previous newbuild Celsius Granada and other Celsius vessels.
Celsius Tech said this marks its eleventh vessel since the project began in 2019.
In addition, this is the seventh Celsius vessel of eleven on order at Samsung Heavy.
It features a MAN ME-GA engine and GTT’s Mark III Flex containment tech.
The first newbuild in this batch, Celsius Geneva, was named in July 2023.
According to its website, Celsius will take delivery of the four remaining newbuilds during 2025-2027.
Celsius LNG fleet
VesselsValue data shows the LNG carrier Celsius Galway will serve a five-year charter deal with UK-based LNG giant Shell.
The data previously showed that BP also chartered Celisus Granada and Celsius Greenwich.
On the other hand, Clearlake Shipping, a subsidiary of energy trader Gunvor, has taken on charter Celsius Glarus, Celsius Geneva, Celsius Giza, and Celsius Gandhinagar.
Back in October 2021, the Danish firm signed long-term charter deals for four LNG carriers with Clearlake Shipping.
In addition to these charters, Celsius Tankers, also signed long-term charter deals for four more newbuild LNG carriers with Clearlake Shipping.
China Merchants Heavy Industry in Jiangsu will build these vessels and deliver them in 2026 and 2027.
On top of this, Celsius also added two more LNG carriers at the Chinese shipbuilder.
Most recently, Celisus ordered another LNG carrier another LNG carrier at Samsung Heavy and chartered the vessel to Japan’s Jera.
Celsius joined forces with UK-based infrastructure investment firm Basalt Infrastructure Partners on this vessel.
Following deliveries of all of these ships, the Danish firm will have 21 LNG carriers in its fleet.
This includes four 180,000-cbm vessels delivered in 2020 and 2021.