Two six-year-old, 174,000 cu m Korean LNG carriers have anchored within the layup waters of Labuan in Malaysia having remarkably by no means entered the fuel trades because of inaccurate containment methods. South Korean media recommend the SK Delivery vessels – the SK Serenity and SK Spica – are actually prone to be bought for scrap.
Closing December a court docket in London dominated that South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Big Industries (SHI) must pay the shipowner $290m to SK Delivery because of defects within the shipment holds of 2 fuel carriers. The ships have been ordered 9 years in the past, and made headlines on the future, as they had been the primary to trait a pristine Korean-developed KC-1 membrane device. In spite of a number of upkeep, the containment methods had been discovered to be inaccurate and the ships by no means traded.
Koreans had been seeking to manufacture their very own fuel containment methods for years to steer clear of paying sizeable charges to France’s GTT, the sector’s dominant supplier of membrane fuel containment methods for ships buying and selling as of late.
