Algeria’s Hyproc is due to open commercial offers for three much-delayed LNG carrier newbuildings in early August.

Shipbuilding sources say the company, the shipping arm of state energy company Sonatrach, has spent the past three months examining the yard’s technical offers on the vessels.

They add that progress has been slow due to staff and resource shortages within Hyproc. The company is said to have postponed opening commercial offers until after the holy month of Ramadan that comes to an end in late July.

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