National Chemical Carriers Limied Company, 80% owned by The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia announced that it had received 4th October 2011 in Korea a new chemical tanker named NCC Danah from SHINAsb of South Korea, as part of Nine vessels previously contracted by NCC from this yard during 2006 to 2007 for a total value of approximately.

"NCC Danah has a DWT of 45,000 tonnes with classification and full notations and cargo capacity of 53,200 cubic meters comprising Zink and Epoxy coated cargo tanks with full segregations.

The vessel will be commercially operated by NCC ODFJELL Chemical Tankers JLT located in Dubai and owned jointly by NCC and its long term strategic partner ODFJELL SE of Norway which commenced operation in January 2010.

NCC has additional 5 vessels under construction at SHINAsb in South Korea for a value of with deliveries expected during 2011 to 2012 in addition to one large chemical tanker of 75,000 DWT, to be constructed at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company Limited of South Korea at the price of for delivery during 2013.

NCC currently operates a fleet of 18 vessels that are specialized in transporting Chemicals, Vegoils and Clean Petroleum Products with DWT capacity of nearly 800,000 tonnes which will grow to 25 vessels and 1.1 millions DWT by 2013.