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Cosco Shipping, MOL team up on six QC-Max LNG carriers

By LNG Prime Staff
Cosco Shipping, MOL team up on six QC-Max LNG carriers
Image: Hudong-Zhonghua

China’s COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation and Japan’s MOL have joined forces on six QC-Max liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers as part of the massive QatarEnergy shipbuilding program. Shanghai Cosco Shipping LNG Investment, a unit of CSET, will take a 50 percent stake in each of the six shipowning entities established by MOL in Liberia, according…

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