Methanol as a commercially and technically viable marine fuel is gaining greater traction over other alternative bunkers, including LNG, as more shipowners adopt the clean burning fuel as price spreads narrow and production ramps up. Speaking at a virtual conference last week, Greg Dolan, CEO of the Methanol Institute noted that methanol production costs will...
Keppel Offshore & Marine has chosen Wärtsilä’s hydrogen and natural gas blend engine generating sets for its Floating Living Lab, the first of its kind offshore floating testbed in Singapore. The FLL project comprises a floating barge with LNG bunkering facilities for harbour crafts and small vessels. It will also house an embedded power generation...
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has signed a long-term consecutive voyage charter with JFE Steel Corporation for a new capesize bulk carrier that will be capable of reducing CO2 emissions by 25-30 per cent thanks to the use of liquified natural gas (LNG). The next-generation 210,000 DWT vessel will reduce sulphur oxides (SOx) emissions by...
China has launched one of its most energy efficient very large crude carriers (VLCCs). The 307,000 DWT CS Hunan Venture was successfully delivered by its builders the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Group (DSIC) in a naming ceremony held in Dalian. The vessel is owned by China Shipbuilding Consulting Company and operated by Wah Kwong Ship Management Hong...
Maritime start-up Kanda has received approval from Lloyd’s Register for its virtual reality LNG bunkering procedure course, which has been developed in conjunction with Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS). The course delivers a remote immersive digital learning experience to educate and train seafarers on liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering procedures in an easily accessible and enjoyable...
The Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF) has published two new guidelines to improve the safety of LNG-fuelled ships. The documents are intended to assist greater standardisation in crew competency and vessel design. SGMF’s ‘Operation of ships with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) – competency and assessment guidelines’ defines the skills required for any...
Norwegian short sea shipping company Seaworks and Kongsberg Maritime (KM) are working on a new project to design and deliver a bulk carrier capable of running on either zero CO2 emission liquefied biogas (LBG) or conventional liquefied natural gas (LNG). KM will deliver the comprehensive, integrated equipment and systems package. The design of the vessel...
The Energy Port in Gothenburg will be next in line in the expansion of the shoreside power network at the Port of Gothenburg. It is estimated that shoreside power at the Energy Port will reduce carbon emissions from vessels by 1,800 tonnes per year. An effective means of reducing emissions from vessels at berth is...
Korea-based owners Pan Ocean and Korea Line LNG have placed orders with Wärtsilä for its complete LNG cargo handling and fuel system for 18,000 cbm capacity ships. The contract was awarded by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, the yard building the two LNG bunkering vessels for which the Wärtsilä systems will be required. The order with Wärtsilä...
NLNG Ship Management has signed a contract with Kongsberg Maritime (KM) to deliver Shell’s patented JAWS (Just Add Water System) draught and trim optimisation software across its entire fleet of 11 LNG carriers. JAWS will be distributed using Kongsberg Maritime’s K-IMS digital solution – a portfolio of specialised applications to support complex operations – making...
Owner of LNG carriers, Qatar-based Nakilat, has signed support agreements with Wärtsilä. The agreements were signed in April this year and are valid for five years. Wärtsilä is the supplier of the LNG reliquefaction systems onboard all of the QFlex vessels covered by the agreements. Under the contract terms, Wärtsilä will provide 24/7 technical remote...
ClassNK has granted an Approval in Principle (AiP) based on its regulation for ships using low-flashpoint fuels (Rule Part GF), incorporating the IGF Code, to Tsuneishi Shipbuilding for its concept design of an LNG-fuelled bulker Kamsarmax GF. As more environmental technologies have been developed to realise a low-carbon and decarbonized society in the maritime industry,...