Shipowners piled into yards to secure at least 30 berths for LNG carrier newbuildings in the first three months of 2022 but the contracts announced revealed that prices have turned sharply upwards.

According to figures compiled by TradeWinds with reference to brokers and industry players, this compares with just five vessels in the same period of 2021, discounting the ships partially contracted that were linked to TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project.