A senior delegation of Samsung Shipyard met Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, igniting expectations that LNG transport ships will soon be built in India.
GAIL has been insisting that foreign builders build at least a third of the 11 LNG carriers it plans to charter for 20 years from the beginning of 2017 to transport LNG from the US to India.
The company’s initial tender in February had failed, but the Centre took up the matter with Korean officials and Samsung Shipyard signed a pact with Cochin Shipyard, Pradhan had informed the Rajya Sabha in May