DUBAI- Kuwait Oil Tanker Co. (KOTC) has ordered three giant liquefied petroleum gas tankers (LPG) from Hyundai Heavy Industries at a cost of $213.3 million, the state-run Kuwait New Agency (KUNA) reported on Sunday.

The first vessel should be delivered at the end of 2019, said KUNA, citing an announcement by KOTC Chief Executive Officer Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Sabah.

(Reporting Hadeel Al Sayegh; Writing by Maher Chmaytelli; Editing by Mark Potter) ((maher.chmaytelli@thomsonreuters.com; +9647901917030;))