MOL puts gas carrier pair on ‘extended delivery’

Michelle Wiese Bockmann - Tuesday 10 November 2009

Sonatrach is using older tonnage after a deal with MOL failed to materialise.

JAPANESE shipowning giant Mitsui OSK Lines has confirmed that two liquefied gas carrier newbuildings worth $205m each have been placed on “extended delivery” until 2010, after they failed to secure anticipated charters from state-owned Algerian energy company Sonatrach.
The 177,000 cu m pair Ben Badis and Abdelkader join an estimated 2...

The rest of this article is only available to Lloyd�s List Library subscribers