A new series of dual-fuel LNG carriers just coming online from China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding represent the stickiest remaining piece of the massive merger of the former Cosco and China Shipping groups.

Sources with insight into the merger process tell TradeWinds that, ultimately, China’s older LNG shipping operation — Hong Kong-based China LNG Shipping (CLNG) — is destined to be folded into the quickly growing China Shipping LNG, perhaps within a year’s time.

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