LNG ship industry alliance established in Shanghai

An LNG ship industry alliance was established during the LNG ship industrial chain development convention held at Shanghai's Changxing Island, part of the city's efforts to build a world-class shipbuilding and offshore engineering industry cluster, according to official sources. Being the birthplace of China's modern shipbuilding industry, Shanghai saw the scale of its shipbuilding and offshore industry reach 100.7 billion yuan in 2023, and Changxing Island has become the nation's first demonstration base of the sector, with its shipbuilding and offshore engineering industrial output exceeding 51 billion yuan and gathering a slew of large shipyards and marine equipment manufacturing enterprises, the local news portal Shanghai Observer reported. Taking the lead in China's liquefied natural gas carrier's research and manufacturing, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Co Ltd has in the past 27 years completed the innovation and development of five generations of LNG carriers, and its products cover the complete industrial chain of LNG, said Song Wei, chief engineer at Hudong-Zhonghua, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp. Earlier in late April, the shipbuilder received orders of building 18 LNG carriers with a capacity of holding 271,000 cubic meters of LNG, which is the world's largest single order of ships.