Tag: lng fueled ships

On  the 27th of February, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK)'s Jasmin Leader, pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) vessel, was the first LNG-powered PCTC to arrive in Hiroshima port. The vessel will transport finished vehicles produced by Mazda Motor Corporation, and seeks to fulfill customers’ demands for a lower environmental burden in the logistics field.

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) and Air Water Inc. (Air Water Chairman, CEO: Kikuo Toyoda) announced the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly study the trial use of liquefied bio-methane (LBM) (Note 1) derived from cattle manure, in LNG fueled vessels.

Capital Ship Management (Capital) received the newbuild 50,000 dwt chemical/product medium-range (MR) tank with LNG fuel-ready propulsion.

SEA-LNG shared its overview of LNG as a marine fuel in 2022-2023, highlighting how the shipping industry has advanced along the LNG pathway to decarbonisation in 2022 and outlines what progress is anticipated in 2023.

MOL announced that the first of Japan's first two LNG-fueled ferries, the Sunflower Kurenai, owned by MOL and operated by its group company Ferry Sunflower Co, entered service on January 13.

Panama’s Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT) received the first LNG-powered vessel to dock at a port in the country, the dual-fuelled French-flagged CMA CGM 15,000 teu-Patagonia.

Guangzhou Yuanhai Car Carrier Transportation, a joint venture led by Cosco Shipping Specialized Carriers, will collaborate with Japan’s Santoku Senpaku to order six LNG-powered pure car and truck carriers in China.

Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries announced that they have successfully completed performance verification of the ‘1.5MW class LNG/hydrogen hybrid engine (HiMSEN)’ developed with their own technology.

Hafnia announced that it will soon welcome four new dual fuel LR2 product vessels which will be time chartered out to its long-standing customers TOTAL Energies and Equinor , owned by a joint venture of Hafnia and CSSC Shipping.

RINA awarded an Approval in Principle (AiP) of a first very large crude carrier (VLCC) vessel using an innovative propulsion arrangement that reduces the ship’s resistance by 5-10%. The vessel will meet the IMO targets for 2050 through the use of the ship’s fuel (LNG) combined with hydrogen produced onboard.