Landmark LNG shipment set to sail into Tianjin

Arrival will have 'significant impact' on the global natural gas industry

A liquefied natural gas ship named Methane Rita Andrea carrying 60,000 metric tons of the clean fuel from Queensland, Australia will arrive at China's receiving terminal in Tianjin in around nine days - a shipment that is expected to help further improve the country's energy consumption structure.

The LNG is coming from the Curtis LNG project, China's first foreign LNG operation, which is owned by the country's largest LNG importer CNOOC Ltd.