Shipowners have submitted their offers for a small-scale LNG carrier to Italian energy company Edison.

Brokers say bids went in at the end of September for the 27,500-cbm vessel, which Edison wants to use to move LNG into facilities it is looking to build at Ravenna in Italy and Oristano on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia.

They say there is considerable interest in the pricing of a vessel of this size.