Tokyo-based Astomos Energy Corp has positioned an order immediately with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for a really giant liquefied petroleum gasoline (LPG) provider.  This marks their their fourth such order with MHI since 2013, an organization that additionally occurs to be a 49 p.c shareholder in Astomos Energy.

Astomos Energy presently operates a fleet of 21 large-scale LPG carriers, six of that are owned and the others time-chartered.  This new vessel, upon supply in 2017 from MHI’s Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works, will change an present vessel that was constructed within the first half of the Nineties, in keeping with MHI,

Astomos Energy targets in its new medium-term marketing strategy starting fiscal 12 months 2015 to increase its LPG transport construction and enhance gross LPG dealing with quantity from the present 10 million tons per 12 months (mtpy) to greater than 12 mtpy by 2017.

Vessel particulars:

• LOA: 230.0 meters
• Beam: 36.6 meters
• Draft: 11.1 meters
• GT: 48,300 tons
• DWT: 51,100 t0ns
• Capacity: 83,000 cubic meters

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