Tag: dual fuel engines

The dual-fuel tanker Fure Valö performed the first voyage on a new Equinor fuel blend containing used cooking oil. It reduces greenhouse gas emissions while, judging from the first test indications, maintaining the same high performance as conventional marine gasoil.

Bureau Veritas (BV) has awarded an Approval in Principle (AIP) for a LNG dual fueled and ammonia fuel prepared very large crude carrier (VLCC). The AiP was awarded at a JDP Delivery Ceremony held at DSIC in Dalian on 27 September 2022.

WinGD and Korean engine builder HSD Engine have initiated a Joint Development Project (JDP) to advance the development of WinGD’s methanol-fueled big-bore engines.

On August 19, Jiangnan Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of CSSC, carried out a steel cutting ceremony for the first 7,600CEU LNG dual fuel PCTC for SAIC Anji Logistics.

Guangzhou Shipyard International, delivered the ‘Greenway’, the world’s first LNG dual fuel Suezmax tanker, built for Eastern Pacific Shipping. 

On June 6 during Posidonia, Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) announced it intends to order an ammonia dual-fuel gas carrier.

Delivered on 24 January 2022 from Wuhu Shipyard, China, Bergmann, Business Director MPV & General Cargo Ships at DNV, notes that "Lady Marie Christine" is one of the first multipurpose dry cargo vessels (MPV) in European short-sea shipping to operate on dual fuel with LNG as the main fuel.

Wärtsilä and Samsung Heavy Industries signed a joint development programme (JDP) agreement aimed at developing ammonia-fuelled vessels with 4-stroke auxiliary engines available for future newbuild projects.

A.P. Møller-Mærsk specifies world’s largest, dual-fuel, methanol engine, further empowering methanol as marine fuel within large-container-vessel segment.

On 2 April, the first low-speed dual-fuel marine engine developed by CSSC’s subsidiary China Shipbuilding Power Group has been officially delivered in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu.