Australia’s Woodside Energy has selected a preferred shipowner for its planned LNG bunker vessel.

Those working closely with the project declined to name the owner involved, but others in the wider industry pointed to Dutch shipowner Anthony Veder as the company left in the running for this project.

The LNGBV is understood to be advancing on the back of increased interest from Australian iron ore producers shipping cargoes into China to switch to LNG-fuelled tonnage.