MOL, Tokyo LNG name new LNG carrier

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) informed that a naming ceremony took place for the new LNG carrier ‘Energy Liberty’, jointly owned by MOL and Tokyo LNG Tanker Co. Ltd., at the Tsu Shipyard of Japan Marine United Corporation, on 16 October.

The 300 metre-long LNG carrier owned and managed by Tokyo LNG Tanker, will have the capacity to transport 165,000 cubic meters of LNG.

The ‘Energy Liberty’ will be the eighth LNG carrier owned and managed by Tokyo LNG Tanker. MOL will directly manage six of those vessels, including ‘Energy Liberty’. After delivery, the vessel will transport LNG from the Cove Point Project in the US to Tokyo Gas.

The naming ceremony was attended by Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. President Michiaki Hirose, who gave the name Energy Liberty to the vessel.