Japanese shipowner Mitsui OSK Lines has chartered out a second LNG carrier newbuilding to gas importer and government-controlled utility Gail (India).

MOL said did not reveal the charter period for the 174,000-cbm 2023-delivering newbuilding except to say it would start from next year.

The ship, which is fitted with an X-DF propulsion system, is under construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.