Japan's Mitsui OSK Lines has switched a Q-Max-sized floating storage and regasification unit newbuilding into an LNG carrier after its charterer Uniper announced that it would be shifting to hydrogen at its Wilhelmshaven site in Germany rather than LNG.

South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said on Friday that the contract on the 263,000-cbm FSRU had been changed and the value halved from the original KRW 410.6bn