The June 2026 release of Global Energy Monitor’s LNG Carrier Tracker lists 364 vessels as under construction: 361 LNG carriers and 3 floating regasification units. The 361 carriers add up to 61.9 million cubic metres of cargo capacity. For comparison, the 764 operating carriers that report a size come to 126.8 million cubic metres. Those are two separate statuses and are shown separately here, never added together.
By delivery year
| Delivery year | Vessels under construction |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 119 |
| 2027 | 73 |
| 2028 | 102 |
| 2029 | 59 |
| 2030 | 5 |
| 2031 | 3 |
| Not reported | 3 |
The full table, with capacity for each year, is on the order book page.
The shape is not a forecast. The steep drop after 2029 is what has been ordered so far, not a statement about how many ships the trade will need. Yards book slots years ahead, so the far end of any order book is always thin and fills in as contracts are signed. Treat the early years as the firm part and the tail as a floor.
The bump in 2028 after a dip in 2027 is real in the data but the tracker does not say why, and neither will we guess.
Proposed ships are a separate matter
A further 34 vessels are listed as proposed, and none of them has a delivery year or a reported capacity. This site shows them in their own column with capacity marked Not reported, rather than as zero, because a missing size and a size of zero are different facts.
Gaps worth knowing about
Containment is the clearest one. Of the 364 vessels under construction, only 23 report a cargo containment family, all of them membrane. For the other 341 the field is empty. Among the 822 operating vessels the gap is far smaller, with 80 unreported. So the order book cannot be split reliably by tank design yet, and any claim about the share of newbuilds using a particular system would be reading an absence as an answer.
The same holds for the shipyards behind these ships. The yard is reported for all 364, and the shipyard ranking shows each yard’s under-construction count next to its operating fleet.
How to use this
For a count of ships arriving in a given year, the delivery year field is what to trust, with the caveat that delivery years are the tracker’s current reading and can move between releases. That is exactly why this site keeps a change log between releases: when the next release lands, the difference between this schedule and the new one is the interesting part.