On May 30th, the naming and delivery ceremony of Vessel HUASHAN, the fifth vessel of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project, was held in Shanghai by COSCO SHIPPING Energy Transportation Co., Ltd. and PetroChina International Co., Ltd (“PCI”). Vessel HUASHAN was named by Ms. Shi Jun, Deputy General Manager of the Science and Technology Management Department of China National Petroleum Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “CNPC”). Mr. Zhu Wenjin, Deputy General Manager of CNPC, Mr. Zhu Maijin, Managing Director of COSCO, Mr. Weng Hongbing, General Manager of Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd, and guests including the financing bank, Hong Kong Marine Department, and China Classification Society attended the ceremony.

In recent years, CNPC, COSCO SHIPPING, and China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited have firmly fulfilled their responsibility to give full play to the effect of a “major cargo owner, major shipowner, and major shipyard”, and jointly build the first LNG project of COSCO SHIPPING and PCI with a purely Chinese background. The project invests and builds eight LNG vessels of 174,000m³, establishing a brand of cooperation in the LNG supply chain in China, continuously developing new quality productive force, and delivering abundant energy for the modernization of Chinese characteristics.

Since the launch of the project, the pre-project vessels of SHAOLIN, WUDANG, KUNLUN, and EMEI have been in stable operation, and have completed the ship-to-shore matching in more than 70 ports around the world, and safely and efficiently transported more than one million tons of LNG cargoes, which has played a positive role in guaranteeing the safety and stable running of the LNG industry chain.