David Wu’s Landmark Capital plans to order and operate a fleet of 10 to 20 medium-size LNG carriers based on a proprietary design that it is claimed enables any standard shipyard to build LNG carriers.

Wu, a brain surgeon turned shipowner who is well known in China through offshore and shipping investment projects, tells TradeWinds that he has been working behind the scenes on the project since Norwegian designers brought him the idea a little over four years ago.