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The Japanese Mitsui & Co. he will invest almost 3,7 billion dollars for the chartering of five ships LNG
They will have an ability to 155 thousand and 174 thousand cubic metres
September 29, 2014
The Japanese group Mitsui & Co. it has in program to equip itself of eight ships to employ for natural the gas transport which liquified from the terminal of the Cameron LNG in the Gulf of Mexico to Japan. To such fine past fridays have signed contracts of chartering for five ships LNG of new construction for the maximum period 25-year-old, with beginning in 2017-2018, and the maximum total costs of about 400 billion yen (almost 3,7 billion dollars).
The five ships, that they will have ability to 155 thousand and 174 thousand cubic metres - has specified Mitsui & Co. - they will be constructed by the Japanese Kawasaki Heavy Industries and a South Korean ship yard. Two of the five ships will be of property of the Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), one of the Japanese Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and two of shipowning societies in which the group Mitsui & Co. it carries out investments.
With such initiative the unit fleet LNG of the group Mitsui & Co., whose property is shared with partner, will go up to 27 ships.
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