Norway's Stolt-Nielsen has signed an agreement with the Japanese Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) to give her the 50% of the capital of Avenir LNG, a company active in the liquefied natural gas bunkering that has been set up in 2017 and was acquired by Stolt-Nielsen at the beginning of the last year, taking it over from the previous shareholders Golar LNG and Aequitas Limited.

Avenir LNG currently has a fleet of five vessels for the LNG bunkering to which two more will be added by the end of next year.