Kanfer Shipping AS ("Kanfer"), the Norway-based shipping company focusing on small-scale LNG sea transportation and LNG bunkering, today signed shipbuilding contract with China-based Taizhou Wuzhou Shipbuilding
Kanfer eyes first charter deal for LNG bunkering this summer: interview
Apr 29, 2021 7:50:am
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by: Shardul Sharma
Norway’s Kanfer Shipping expects to sign the first charter agreement for its small-scale LNG bunkering vessels this summer, the company’s managing director Stig Hagen tells NGW in an interview.
Kanfer, part-owned by Singapore-based AG&P, is a developer of small-scale LNG carriers and bunkering vessels, as well as maritime LNG break-bulk and storage solutions. It signed a letter of intent (LoI) with China’s Taizhou Wuzhou Shipbuilding Industry in January for the construction of two small-scale LNG bunkerin.
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Photo: Kanfer Shipping Norway’s Kanfer Shipping has penned a letter of intent with China’s Taizhou Wuzhou Shipbuilding Industry to construct two small-scale LNG bunker tanker.
The 6,000-cu m capacity bunker tankers are scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2023.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Kanfer Shipping has an option to build additional vessels.
Tonsberg-based Kanfer Shipping will own the bunker tankers and charter them out on long term contracts.
“These ships will be the most cost efficient and environmentally-friendly small-scale LNG ships in the global marketplace,” said Stig Hagen, founder and ceo of Kanfer Shipping.
China’s Taizhou to Build LNG Bunker Vessels for Kanfer
Jan 27, 2021 1:00:pm
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China’s Taizhou to Build LNG Bunker Vessels for Kanfer
Norway’s Kanfer Shipping has signed a letter of intent with China’s Taizhou Wuzhou Shipbuilding Industry Co. for the construction of its first two small-scale LNG bunker vessels, Kanfer said on January 27.
The vessels, with 6,000 m
3 tank capacity each, are scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2023, with the option to build additional vessels. Kanfer will own the vessels together with its partners and charter them out on long-term contracts.
Kanfer Shipping AS signs LOI for two small-scale LNG bunker vessels
Kanfer Shipping AS (“Kanfer”), the Norway-based shipping company focusing on small-scale LNG sea transportation and LNG bunkering, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Chinabased Taizhou Wuzhou Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd (“Taizhou”) for the construction of its first two small-scale LNG bunker and distribution ships with 6,000 cbm tank capacity each.
The vessels are scheduled for delivery within the first half of 2023, with the option to build additional vessels. Kanfer will own the vessels together with its partners and charter them out on long-term contracts. CGR Arctic Marine AS, the Norway-based technological partner of Kanfer, is the conceptual developer of cutting-edge LNG distribution and bunker vessels. CGR’s concept design for these two LNG bunker and distribution ships including their specialized cargo and gas process plants, addresses the immediate industry need for more cost-efficient a