Greek owner John Angelicoussis has added another two LNG carriers to his huge orderbook at Korea's DSME.
The shipbuilder said on Monday the 174,000-cbm vessels will be delivered by the end of 2021.
They are worth $380m combined in a contract with the owner's Maran Gas Maritime.
This is Maran's twelfth LNG carrier set for delivery from DSME between this month and 2021.
The yard has won $1.1bn worth of orders so far this year to build nine ships, including six tankers, it said.
It is aiming to bag $8.37bn in 2019, up 10% from last year's order target of $7.3bn.
For the whole of 2018, the shipyard sealed contracts valued at $6.81bn.
On 15 February, DSME said Maran Gas had ordered a 174,000-cbm carrier for delivery in the first half of 2021.
It declined to disclose the value of the contract, citing a confidentiality agreement.
The deal answered one question with regards to DSME — it is still signing newbuilding orders ahead of its tie-up with Hyundai Heavy Industries.
UK shipbroker Affinity (Shipping) had suggested that DSME could be left in a bit of a limbo, in that it was “engaged to be married, but won’t tie the knot for another few months”.
“During the lengthy engagement, they can’t afford not to market their capacity, as that would leave them exposed with prompt deliveries,” the shipbroker said.
“But they may find buyers loath to engage with a company not in control of its own future or even marketing policy.”
