Hamworthy Breaks Through in Chinas Gas Ship Market

Project team members of Hamworthy Oil & Gas Systems, Hamworthy Shanghai and Sinopacific at the contract signing ceremony in China

Hamworthy Gas Systems has made a major advance in China’s broadening gas carrier construction sector by securing a breakthrough contract for systems for six Liquid Ethylene Gas carriers to be built at Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co. Ltd (“SOE”), Nantong.

The ships, six 12,000m3 capacity, 139m long semi-pressurized and refrigerated LEG carriers ordered by Luxembourg-based Jaccar Holdings, are being built in accordance with Sinopacific’s latest ‘Tiger’ design, with delivery due from 2012 onwards.

In a contract worth over £20 million, each ship will feature cargo handling systems from Hamworthy, due delivery between December 2011 and mid 2013. “China now dominates the new contract market by number and deadweight and, increasingly, its experience is being turned to more complex vessels such as gas carriers,” said Tore Lunde, Hamworthy Gas Systems’ Managing Director. “We see this innovative project as a very significant reference for Hamworthy in the gas ship market in China.”

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