Another milestone in the rapid development of Chinese shipbuilding capacity as two of the nation’s shipbuilders delivered the first LNG carrier to be built in China and the largest containership to emerge from a Chinese shipyard on April 3.
Both of these historic first shipbuilding projects were completed to ABS class standards. Shanghai-based Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard delivered the 147,000 m3 LNG carrier Dapeng Sun to China LNG Shipping (International) Ltd for service between Australia’s North West Shelf and China’s first LNG receiving terminal in Guangdong Province. It is the first of a five ship series that are being dual classed by ABS and China Classification Society. Keel laying for the first ship took place in June 2005. Construction is already nearing completion on the second in the series, the Dapeng Moon scheduled for delivery in late-June, with the fifth and final ship expected to be handed over one year later in June 2009. “LNG carriers are one of the most sophisticated vessel types for a shipyard to produce,” noted ABS Pacific Division President Jim Liebertz at the delivery. ABS is currently the only class society with LNG carriers building to its standards in China, Korea and Japan. The second milestone occurred at the Nantong COSCO KHI Shipyard (NACKS) with the delivery of the 10,000 TEU Cosco Oceania to COSCO Container Lines. This is the largest containership to have been built in China and is the first of a four ship series from the yard. “COSCO is a long standing client and we are honored to have been selected to class this historic series of ultra large containerships for them,” said ABS Senior Vice President for China and the Central Pacific Region, Kingsley Koo.
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