Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. delivered the SHINSHU MARU (Kawasaki hull no. 1734), a 177,000 m3 capacity liquefied natural gas (LNG) transport vessel for use by Trans-Pacific Shipping 7 Limited, a joint venture between JERA Co., Inc. and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line).
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The second of Kawasaki’s line of 177,000 m3 capacity LNG carriers to be commissioned, this ship is designed to enable passage through the newly expanded Panama Canal, which opened for full...