Norway’s Knutsen has taken delivery of the last LNG carrier in a series of six sister vessels chartered to Poland’s Orlen.
Knutsen announced the delivery of the 174,000-cbm LNG carrier, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, in a social media post on Wednesday.
HD Hyundai Samho’s yard in Mokpo built this LNG carrier.
In March this year, the christening ceremony for the 174,000-cbm Jozef Piłsudski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski took place at the South Korean yard.
These are the fifth and sixth LNG carriers Orlen chartered from Knutsen.
The vessels are chartered for a period of 10 years, with an option to extend.
In April 2022, PGNiG, now part of Orlen, signed charter deals for these vessels with Knutsen and also for two more vessels with Greece’s Maran Gas.
By next year, Orlen’s chartered LNG fleet will grow to as many as eight vessels, the firm previously said.