HE the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, Saad bin Sherida al-Kaabi, also the President and CEO of QatarEnergy, met in Beijing yesterday with Miao Jianmin, chairman of China Merchants Group; Jiang Guodong, chairman of Shandong Marine Group and Zhang Yong, vice-president of COSCO Shipping Group. The meeting with the leaderships of the three Chinese shipowners took place on the sidelines of the signing ceremony of long-term time charter party agreements for the operation of nine QC-Max LNG vessels as part QatarEnergy’s historic LNG fleet expansion programme. The meeting was attended by Mohamed Abdullah al-Dehaimi, Qatar’s ambassador to China and senior executives from QatarEnergy, QatarEnergy LNG and the three shipowner companies.
