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GREAT SHIPS of 2022

Sparky, a new all-electric ship handling tugboat, was chris- tened in Auckland, New Zealand. The RSD-E Tug 2513 was

SPARKY built at Damen Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam for owner

Ports of Auckland. Equipped with 2,784 kWh of batteries,

All-Electric Ship the 70-ton bollard pull harbor tug can undertake two or more assignments before being recharged—which takes about two

Handling Tug hours—entirely emissions-free.

Sparky is a 25 m long with a six-m draft. It has a twin set of azimuth thrusters with a three meter diameter. Powerful and emission-free, the tug operates on Echandia’s LTO batteries.

A 2.8 MWh battery system is especially well suited for high- power operations (10 MW of peak-power, allowing for 70 ton bollard pull) and fast charging.

Echandia’s battery system has a lifetime equal to the 30 year planned lifetime of the vessel – making its total cost of ownership extremely low. The total cost of ownership will be equal to or lower than that of a diesel-powered tug.

VIKING NEPTUNE

First Ship in the Cruise Industry to Test Small Hydrogen Fuel System

Viking has taken delivery of Viking Neptune from Fincan- to mark its 25th anniversary. Viking Expeditions launched tieri’s shipyard in Ancona, Italy. While identical to Viking’s in January with the purpose-built Viking Octantis; her sister other oceangoing ships, Viking Neptune is equipped with ship, the Viking Polaris, debuted in September. Earlier in the a small hydrogen fuel system with a nominal power of 100 year, the company also welcomed eight new Viking Long- kW, making it the cruise industry’s ? rst ship to test the use of ships on the rivers of Europe, new purpose-built vessels for hydrogen power for on board operations. Viking is using the the Nile, Mekong and Mississippi Rivers, as well as another small system as a test to determine how hydrogen fuel could new ocean ship, the Viking Mars. be used at a larger scale in future newbuilds. Viking Neptune is 47,800 gt, with 465 staterooms that can

Delivery of Viking Neptune comes as Viking continues host 930 guests.

On September 2, a naming cer- wife. Yuji Nishijima, NYK ex- emony was held at Sakaide Works ecutive Of? cer, attended together of Kawasaki Heavy Industries with others from NYK. This ves-

LUPINUS

Ltd. for a new VLGC (very large sel will be NYK‘s ? rst lique? ed gas carrier) that NYK will charter petroleum gas (LPG) dual-fuel

PLANET to Astomos Energy Corporation. VLGC. When LPG is used as

At the ceremony, the ship was fuel, exhaust gas from the ordered named Lupinus Planet by Toru VLGC will contain at least 85%

Araki, executive vice president less sulfur oxide (SOx) and 15% at Astomos Energy Corporation, less carbon dioxide (CO2) com- and the ceremonial rope holding pared to conventional VLGCs

First LPG Dual-Fuel VLGC for Astomos the vessel in place was cut by his equipped with fuel-oil engines.

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