Two shipowners are going head-to-head to secure a contract set to be awarded in days that would back the construction of a pioneering 18,600-cbm LNG bunker vessel (LNGBV) for Total.
Newbuilding sources following the closely-fought contest, which is set to be concluded next week, say Germany’s Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement is ranged on one side with an offer of a newbuilding at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) in South Korea.
