Kumiai Navigation of Singapore has returned to Kawasaki Heavy Industries for another VLGC newbuilding.

Tomomaru Kuroyanagi, managing director of Kumiai Navigation, confirmed to TradeWinds that his company had inked a letter of intent for one 84,000-cbm gas carrier at the Japanese shipyard.

He added that the LPG-propelled dual-fuelled ship is the latest design conceptualised by KHI. It forms part of the company’s fleet renewal and expansion programme.