TOTE Maritime has decided to delay retrofitting its ro-ro/container ship Midnight Sun to run on LNG for one year due to the sinking of the El Faro in early October.
Midnight Sun had been scheduled to visit the Keppel Offshore & Marine shipyard in Singapore this December to be retrofitted with four Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines, an LNGPac fuel feed system and two 1,100m3 LNG bunker tanks.
Tote had planned to substitute El Faro on Midnight Sun’s regular US West Coast route linking Tacoma, Washington with the Alaskan port of Anchorage.
The News Tribune reports that John Parrott, Tote Maritime president, said that without a ship to replace the Midnight Sun, Tote is delaying the conversion a year. El Faro, then called the Northern Lights, served the Alaska route until 2006 when it was transferred to Florida to serve Tote Maritime Alaska’s sister company Tote Maritime Puerto Rico. Mr Parrott said Tote is negotiating with the Coast Guard to win its approval for the delay.
El Faro has already been replaced by a new ship, the Isla Bella, the first of two new natural gas powered ships built for Tote in San Diego.
The Midnight Sun will drop out of the Alaska rotation for about three weeks in December and January to allow crews to perform required maintenance on the ship.
Tote has also plans to similarly convert North Star, a sistership to Midnight Sun, at Keppel. However, this project will also be delayed by a year.
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