AET has revealed plans to equip four newbuilding tankers with an LNG dual fuel option.

The tanker owner said a quartet of aframaxes under construction at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) will initially operate in areas with LNG bunker availability upon their delivery from 2018 onwards.

Yee Yang Chien, chairman of AET, said: “As an organisation, operating in a responsible manner and improving our environmental stewardship is key to the way business is managed at MISC.