SMC secures plan approval and site supervision services for second LNG bunkering vessel project

SMC is pleased to announce it has been contracted to provide plan approval and site supervision services in relation to a 7,500 m3 LNG bunkering vessel with expected delivery in 2020.

It’s our second LNG bunkering project, with the first one being jointly owned by our parent company Bernhard Schulte and Babcock 7,500 m3 currently under construction at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Korea.

LNG bunkering vessels are a tailor-made designs developed to meet the demand for LNG bunkering, with LNG bunkering carried out at sea, a method more efficient compared with conventional approaches which require ships to call at port in order to get bunkered from shore LNG infrastructure.