Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has clinched another LNG carrier order, with prices seemingly on the rise.

An unnamed Oceania-based company will pay $185m for a 174,000-cbm ship delivering in January 2021, the yard said.

The deal is vessel number 41 for Samsung so far this year.

Its 2018 orders are worth $4.9bn.

Earlier in October, NYK said it had ordered a 174,000-cbm LNGC for a seven-year charter to Total.