Work begins on Nakilat?s 2nd Q-Max

Work on Qatar Gas Transport Company?s (Nakilat) second Q-Max LNG tanker has begun with its managing director Mohamed A Ghannam initiating the steel cutting.

Nakilat has placed orders for 14 such tankers, which would be fully owned by it. The delivery is expected by early 2010.

This is the first Q-Max, the largest LNG carrier at 265,000 m3, to be built at South Korea?s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company?s (DSME) shipyard.