SOUTH Korea's Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries has delivered the
world's first very large containership powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Singapore's Eastern Pacific Shipping
(EPS).
The LNG-powered, 14,800 TEUy CMA CGM Tenere is one of six
containerships in a series being built for EPS by Hyundai Samho, a unit of
shipbuilding giant Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering
Co.
The
six neo-Panamax box ships are each powered by dual-fuel MAN B&W 11G90ME-GI main engines
capable of running
on LNG or traditional diesel bunker fuel.
The
366-metre-long vessels were ordered by EPS in April 2018 and will be delivered
by the third quarter of 2022. They will be chartered by French container
shipping company CMA CGM.
The
French shipping carrier is to take delivery soon of even larger LNG-powered
containerships, starting with the 400-metre-long, 23,000-TEU capacity CMA CGM
Jacques Saade from Shanghai Jiangnan-Changxing Shipyard. The Chinese shipyard is building nine vessels
in the series for CMA CGM, that aims to operate at least 20 LNG-fueled containerships by 2022, reports New York's MarineLink.
More and more shipowners in various segments -
from bulk carriers to cruise ships - are looking to LNG-powered vessels to meet
the International Maritime Organization's (IMO)
environmental regulations that call for ship
emissions to be reduced by more than 30 per cent by 2025 from 2008 levels.
The IMO rules also target 40 per cent emissions reductions by 2030 and by 70
per cent reductions by 2050.
Source
: HKSG / Photo : ShipSpotting.com.
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