LNG CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS:DAVID BATTLES GOLIATH

摘要

KC-1, the South Korea-built containment system, has some way to go to erode the vast 80 per cent market share of French company GTT. But the country's government and shipbuilders are determined to back the new technology wherever possible, to transfer expertise and to cut costs. But, speaking to LNG World Shipping at Gastech this year, KC-1 developer KC LNG Tech was waiting to secure that all-important second order for its new membrane containment technology. Two weeks later, Korea Line confirmed that it has ordered two small-scale LNG carriers from Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to be fitted with the KC-1 system.