LNG-regasification vessel owner Excelerate Energy is poised to tie up all its specialist units on time-charter business by the end of this year in what would be a first for the company.

Speaking to TradeWinds at the Gastech meeting in South Korea this week, chief executive Rob Bryngelson said: “I see us being eight or nine ships committed by the end of the year and that would be substantially all of our fleet.

“We