{"id":11492,"date":"2020-06-12T01:53:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/flex-lng-to-take-delivery-of-first-2020-newbuild-vessel\/11492\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T01:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T22:53:18","slug":"flex-lng-to-take-delivery-of-first-2020-newbuild-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/flex-lng-to-take-delivery-of-first-2020-newbuild-vessel\/11492\/","title":{"rendered":"Flex LNG to take delivery of first 2020 newbuild vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flex LNG, the shipping company controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen, is to take delivery of its first newbuild vessel for this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Inside Flex Aurora’s LNG tank (Image: Flex LNG)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Norway-based company said on Wednesday it expects LNG carrier Flex Aurora<\/a> to join its fleet by end of July.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy is building the uncomitted 174,000-cbm LNG carrier, which will be ready for charter immediately after delivery.<\/p>\n

Flex Aurora features WinGD low-pressure X-DF engines and GTT’s Mark III Flex containment system.<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of Flex LNG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Flex aquired this ship in a package with sister vessel Flex Amber from Fredriksen’s Geveran Trading in May 2018. It payed $184 million for each vessel.<\/p>\n

The company currently has six vessels on the water and an additional seven newbuildings under construction at HHI and DSME.<\/p>\n

Flex expects to take deliveries of these vessels between the third quarter 2020 and the second quarter 2021.<\/p>\n

The post Flex LNG to take delivery of first 2020 newbuild vessel<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flex LNG, the shipping company controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen, is to take delivery of its first newbuild vessel for this year. Inside Flex Aurora’s LNG tank (Image: Flex LNG) The Norway-based company said on Wednesday it expects LNG carrier Flex Aurora to join its fleet by end of July. South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[3593,2092,523,1386,549],"class_list":["post-11492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-delivery","tag-flex","tag-lng","tag-newbuild","tag-vessel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}