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In the Shipyard

Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs

NYK to Build Its Sixth LPG $560M Explora I

Dual-Fuel Very Large LPG /

Delivered

Ammonia Carrier

NYK

NYK is announced the order of its sixth lique? ed pe-

Fincantieri troleum gas (LPG) dual-fuel very large LPG/lique? ed am-

MSC Group Cruise Division – Explora Journeys – saw monia gas carrier (VLGC) from Kawasaki Heavy Indus- the launch by Fincantieri of Explora I, the ? rst of four new tries Ltd. (KHI). The ship will be built at the KHI Sakaide luxury cruise vessels for MSC's new luxury travel brand.

Works shipyard and is set for delivery in 2026.

The ? rst ship cost $560m, part of a four-ship newbuild

This vessel is the eighth in NYK's ? eet of LPG-fueled plan for a cumulative $2.6B.

LPG carriers and the sixth in a new type of vessel capable

Explora I will depart on her maiden voyage on August of carrying ammonia and thus ? exibly responding to vari- 1 from Copenhagen in Denmark. The luxury vessel will ous trade patterns.

spend several weeks in Northern Europe offering a num-

In addition to the LPG dual-fuel engine, the ship will ber of different itineraries and will then cross the Atlantic have a shaft generator that can generate electricity during

Ocean to spend the winter in North America and the Ca- the voyage by using the rotation of the shaft that connects ribbean Sea before returning to Europe in the summer of the main engine to the propeller. Since the diesel generator 2024 for a few cruises in the Mediterranean Sea.

can be stopped during regular seagoing transit, realizing full

Explora II is currently under construction at the Fin- navigation with LPG fuel will be possible except for the use cantieri shipyard in Genoa Sestri Ponente and will enter of a small amount of pilot fuel as an ignition source.

service in August 2024. EXPLORA III will be the ? rst

When LPG is used as fuel, exhaust gas from the ordered of two lique? ed natural gas-powered vessels to join the

VLGC will contain at least 95% less sulfur oxide (SOx)

Explora Journeys ? eet, with delivery expected in 2026, and 20% less CO2 than NYK’s conventional VLGCs using while EXPLORA IV in 2027.

heavy-oil ? red engines.

All Explora ships are out? tted with Selective Catalytic

The vessel is expected to be given notations byClassNK

Reduction (SCR) technology, connectivity to the shore as a VLGC that has a preparatory design in accordance power grid, underwater noise management systems and with the guidelines issued by ClassNK so that this vessel a wide range of energy ef? cient equipment.

may use ammonia fuel in the future.

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