Trygve Seglem’s Knutsen OAS Shipping has booked an LNG carrier newbuilding at Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Knutsen is paying $193m for the 180,000 newbuilding, which has been placed after the Norwegian owner won a contract from a Spanish charterer.

The deal has been confirmed a month after TradeWinds reported that Knutsen was favourite to secure the business from Spanish utility Iberdrola.

BW LNG and Japan’s K Line were also short-listed for the work. 

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