CMHI-Jiangsu and GTT ink membrane deal

The shipyard began the licensing process earlier this year and successfully obtained it at the mock-up completion ceremony held on 10 October.

GTT and China Merchant Industry Holdings, CMHI-Jiangsu’s owner, have been cooperating for a decade, with the first technical service agreement signed in 2013 for the maintenance and repair of LNGCs.

A cooperation agreement was begun in 2016 for the evaluation of CMHI to implement GTT technologies and this latest Technical Assistance and License Agreement cements the deal, with the yard now able to construct vessels using GTT’s membrane technologies.

“We are already acquainted with GTT’s technologies and we are determined to consolidate our shipbuilding experience with these technologies for large LNG carrier, FSU1, FSRU2, FLNG3, VLEC4, as well as LNG fuelled merchant vessels,” said Simple Hu, general manager of China Merchants Industry Holdings.

“We aim to further deepen our collaboration with GTT with our other shipyards as well.”