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In the Shipyard

Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs

Sun? ower Kurenai: Japan’s First LNG-fueled Ferry itsubishi Shipbuilding Co., held a christening and launch ceremony for the Sun? ower Kure-

Mnai, the ? rst of two large LNG-fueled ferries being built for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL). The ceremony took place at the Enoura Plant at MHI’s Shi- monoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works in Yamaguchi

Prefecture. The handover is scheduled for December 2022, following completion of interior work and sea tri- als. The new vessel will go into service from January 2023 on a regular route between Osaka and Beppu oper- ated by Oita-based Ferry Sun? ower Limited.

Sun? ower Kurenai is 199.9 x 28m, with gross ton- nage of approximately 17,300. The vessel has capacity to accommodate 716 passengers, an estimated 137 13-m trucks, and roughly 100 passenger cars. The main engine is a high-performance dual-fuel engine – the ? rst of its kind featured on a domestic ferry – that can run on both lique? ed natural gas (LNG) and A-type heavy oil. It is designed to provide a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions and close to zero emissions of sulfur oxides (Sox).

Elisa Aquila: LNG Carrier for Edison n March 3, the lique? ed natu- ral gas (LNG) carrier Elisa

OAquila commercially managed by France LNG Shipping and under a long-term charter contract with Edison

SPA, a Milan-based energy company, was delivered. Elisa Aquila will be the second vessel to be chartered to the EDF group, a French electric power compa- ny, on a long-term basis (up to 20 years including extension options) and will be engaged in LNG transportation under the ship management of Gazocean, a

Photo courtesy NYK Photo courtesy Mitsubishi Shipbuilding

French ship management company spe- cialized in LNG, jointly owned by NYK

Vessel Particulars

Length o.a. 297m and Geogas LNG, a French ship man- frigeration system that can tap surplus

Breadth 46.4m agement company. boil-off gas. Manufactured by GTT, the

Gross tonnage 118,753 tons

Elisa Aquila is propelled by WinGD- 174,000-cubic meter capacity mem-

Main engine X-DF diesel engine manufactured, dual-fuel slow-speed brane-type tank will be made of ad-

Cargo tank capacity 174,000 cu. m.

Speed 19.5 knots diesel engines, and feature an Air Liq- vanced insulating materials that reduce

Shipbuilder Hyundai Samho Heavy uide–manufactured Turbo-Brayton re- the vaporization rate.

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