{"id":33771,"date":"2023-05-20T01:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T22:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/china-merchants-readies-four-more-newbuilds\/33771\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T01:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T22:55:20","slug":"china-merchants-readies-four-more-newbuilds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/china-merchants-readies-four-more-newbuilds\/33771\/","title":{"rendered":"China Merchants readies four more newbuilds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) is continuing to grow its fleet with four more newbuild vessels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Shanghai-listed energy transport unit of China Merchants Group said its board had approved the construction of two 175,000 cu m liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers and two aframax tankers.<\/p>\n<p>CMES has not named its yard of choice, which most likely will be Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC), where the state-owned shipowner currently has six LNG ships and a trio of aframaxes set to deliver between 2024 and 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/china-merchants-back-at-dalian-for-more-lng-carriers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In September<\/a><\/span>, CMES signed a deal for two dual-fuel LNG carriers at Dalian and a letter of intent for an additional four units, two of which were approved for construction <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/china-merchants-in-for-more-dalian-lng-carriers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last December<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\" style=\"\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) is continuing to grow its fleet with four more newbuild vessels.\u00a0 The Shanghai-listed energy transport unit of China Merchants Group said its board had approved the construction of two 175,000 cu m liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers and two aframax tankers. CMES has not named its yard of choice, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33771","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=33771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/33772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}