Saga LNG Shipping is putting a midsize LNG carrier with a new design on the spot market.

The bid for spot work comes after a long-term charter fell through that would have been a "milk run" job in the South Pacific for Japan's MOL, sources said.

The 45,000-cbm LNG carrier Saga Dawn (built 2019), the prototype of Saga LNG's much-publicised but commercially untried LNT A-Box containment system, was delivered earlier this year by China Merchants Heavy Industry's Jiangsu yard.