Anchor Ship Partners launches $5.65bn Japanese green ship fund

Japanese ship finance giant Anchor Ship Partners is launching a huge fund to build up an LNG carrier fleet to lease to the nation’s top three lines, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsui OSK Lines and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha. Japanese newswire Nikkei says the new Y600bn ($5.65bn) fund will start by ordering LNG-fuelled gas carriers, before then …

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