Capital Gas has received its first LNG carrier — the 174,000m³ Aristos I — which is set to begin its 12-year charter with BP.
The vessel was delivered to Capital Gas yesterday, leaving South Korean shipowner Hyundai Heavy Industries' (HHI) Ulsan yard today having finished gas trials earlier this month. The carrier had been scheduled for delivery in October, before being delayed.
Capital Gas — a subsidiary of Greek shipowner Capital Maritime — has a further six carriers on its order book — all with HHI — scheduled for delivery from January 2021-23. But the first three of these carriers have been delayed by 2-3 months (see table).
The shipowner is the second to receive its maiden LNG carrier in recent months, after Denmark's Celsius Shipping took receipts of its 180,000m³ Celsius Copenhagen in October.
The delivery of the Aristos I is the second global LNG carrier delivery so far in November, after Japanese owner NYK Line received the 174,000m³ Diamond Gas Metropolis earlier this month. A further two are slated to be delivered by the end of the month — the 174,000m³ Gaslog Georgetown, under charter with US operator Cheniere, and the 173,400m³ Flex Freedom.

