LNG carrier owners are battling to agree on charterparty clauses relating to the International Maritime Organization’s Carbon Intensity Indicator as ship ratings loom in 2024.

Capital Product Partners chief commercial officer Spyros Leoussis said for CII the regulation is “wrong”.

Leoussis, who was speaking on a shipping panel at the World LNG Summit & Awards, said that one of the company’s 174,000-cbm LNG carrier newbuildings attracted an A rating and another a D, because it was used as storage for a couple of months.