{
  "id": 17785746,
  "title": "Chinese ship-owner CMES holds vessel-naming ceremony in South Korea, advancing the two countries’ shipbuilding cooperation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/chinese-ship-owner-cmes-holds-vessel-naming-ceremony-in-south-korea",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-02T11:00:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hellenic Shipping News",
    "slug": "hellenic-shipping-news",
    "url": "https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/chinese-ship-owner-cmes-holds-vessel-naming-ceremony-in-south-korea-advancing-the-two-countries-shipbuilding-cooperation/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The first vessel under China Merchants Energy Shipping’s (CMES) second-phase LNG project with QatarEnergy was named in South Korea on October 28-29, according to media reports, marking progress in cooperation between Chinese ship-owners and South Korean shipbuilders. The LEKHRAIB, the first of six 174,000-cubic-meter LNG carriers ordered by CMES from South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries ...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}