Keel Laid for UECC’s Third LNG Battery Hybrid PCTC Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. Photo courtesy UECC As the maritime industry debates the "future fuel", one carrier, United European Car Carriers (UECC), plows forward, celebrating today the keel-laying of its third in a series of PCTCs powered by an liquefied natural gas (LNG) battery hybrid arrangement. The ceremony at China's Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard saw the laying of the keel for the hull designated H2665 as part of an ambitious newbuild program in which UECC is taking the lead in sustainable shipping by developing the first-ever vessels to run on hybrid propulsion power fueled by LNG.