Small-scale gas shipping specialist Anthony Veder is closing in on a couple of newbuilding projects, which it may announce in the next few weeks.

Speaking to TradeWinds at the naming ceremony of the company’s two groundbreaking new LNG-fuelled ethylene carriers, the 4,700-cbm Coral Star and Coral Sticho (see pages 16 and 17), chief executive Jan Valkier said Veder is working on a number of LNG newbuilding projects and hopes to announce one or possibly two before the end of this year.

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