Tag: lng fueled ships

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.

MOL announced that the Sunflower Kurenai, the Japan’s first LNG-fueled ferry received its first LNG fuel supply at the Port of Beppu in Oita Prefecture from Kyuden.

CMA CGM, COSCO, OOCL and Evergreen have signed the Ocean Alliance Day 7 Product, which will launch in January 2023 with 40 services and an annual capacity of 22.4 million TEUs.

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), MTI, and Elomatic Oy have completed the concept design phase of a new capesize bulk carrier and a very large crude oil tanker (VLCC) in a project that aims to build an LNG-fueled vessel that can be efficiently converted to an ammonia-fueled vessel, or ARLFV, an ammonia-fuel ready LNG-fueled vessel.

MSC Cruises hosted the Naming Ceremony for its newest flagship—MSC World Europa—at the brand-new Grand Cruise Terminal in Doha, Qatar. MSC World Europa is the most innovative and environmentally advanced cruise ship in the MSC Cruises fleet.

A new UCL study, released at the Marine Money conference taking place during New York Climate Week, found that, if policies that incentivise shipping to decarbonise in line with the Paris Agreement were in place by the end of the decade, the LNG-capable fleet would compete with zero emissions shipping, whilst also being incentivised to switch away from the use of fossil fuel.

U.S. shipping and logistics company Crowley has awarded Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) a contract for the charter of four newbuild containerships powered by liquified natural gas (LNG) for Crowley's U.S.-Central America trade.

The Methane Abatement in Maritime (MAM) Innovation Initiative, a coalition of shipping leaders launched on  September 6th, 2022, aims to minimise the environmental impact of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in shipping, whilst aiding the transition to future fuel solutions.