Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has won an US$ 400 million order to build two 155,000 cbm LNG carriers for Singapore[ds_preview]-based BW Maritime. These membrane-type LNG carriers, measuring 228 m in length, 44.2 m in width and 26 m in depth, are due for delivery in the second half of 2014 and the first half of 2015. The ships for liquefied natural gas feature the Dual Fuel Diesel Engine System (DFDE) which allows the ship to run both on oil fuel or natural gas. HHI has been taking the lead in developing technologies for LNG carriers such as building Korea’s first LNG ship in 1996, Korea’s first DFDE-type LNG carriers in 2007, and the world’s first new LNG-Floating Storage Regasification Unit in June 2011. Moreover, HHI has been developing a special welding system that can work on the thick aluminium plates used for the LNG tanks since 2010.
