China’s Saga LNG Shipping has completed designs for a raft of small and medium-size LNG carriers, and is talking to prospective charterers about future newbuildings as its first vessel shifts into commercial operations.

Speaking to TradeWinds from Malaysia, where he is stuck in Covid-19 lockdown, chief executive David Wu said Saga had finished the bulk of the design work for LNT A-Box LNG vessels — of 12,000 cbm, 25,000 cbm, 45,000 cbm and 80,000 cbm —...