Chinese ship-owner CMES holds vessel-naming ceremony in South Korea, advancing the two countries’ shipbuilding cooperation

The first vessel under China Merchants Energy Shipping’s (CMES) second-phase LNG project with QatarEnergy was named in South Korea on October 28-29.

The LEKHRAIB, the first of six 174,000-cubic-meter LNG carriers ordered by CMES from South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries, was named during a ceremony attended by officials from both countries.