Total opens bids for new large LNG bunker vessel

Energy major Total is reviewing offers from shipbuilders in South Korea and China for a large LNG bunker vessel (LNGBV).

Market sources say Total asked yards to bid on an 18,000-cbm LNGBV in an initial round of offers and has now opened submissions from up to seven Chinese and four South Korean shipyards.

They indicate that the company is seeking to price a bunker vessel as part of its offer to supply LNG as a fuel to French containership giant CMA CGM, which has contracted nine large 22,000-teu boxships in China.