China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC), part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), has delivered a new liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier to Northern Lights, a joint venture (JV) encompassing three European oil majors: Shell, Equinor, and TotalEnergies.

While revealing the delivery of the Northern Phoenix liquefied CO2 carrier to Northern Lights, Japan’s maritime transport player, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) , which entered into bareboat charter contracts and time charter contracts for three of the four liquefied CO2 carriers ordered by Northern Lights, explains that this is the third liquefied CO2 carrier to be engaged by the JV, which is said to be world’s first to offer full-scale commercial transportation and storage of CO2.