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In the Shipyard

Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs

Van Oord Upgrades Heavy-lift

Gulf Craft, Incat Crowther an Oord’s heavy-lift installation vessel

Team on Virgin Island Ferry

VSvanen will receive a major upgrade: the gan- try crane will be extended by 25m, making the vessel ready to handle the next gen- eration of monopile founda- © Incat Crowther tions for offshore wind proj-

Image courtesy Van Oord ects. The extension, weighing ncat Crowther will partner with Gulf Craft LLC in Frank- 1200 tons, will be built by Holland Shipyards. Besides the lin, La., to design and deliver a new USCG Subchapter-K gantry extension, the upgrade program includes an upgrade of

Iapproved, 104-ft. (32-m) passenger ferry for the govern- the lifting hooks, which will increase the lifting capacity of the ment of the U.S Virgin Islands. Construction of the new ferry vessel from 3,000 tons to 4,500 tons, an upgrade of the gripper began in November 2023. The new ferry will service the tour- to handle increased loads, and an upgrade of the structure of ist and commuter route between Red Hook on the island of St. the vessel to accommodate the latest hammer size.

Thomas, and Cruz Bay on the island of St. John. Currently, two other Incat Crowther-designed 28-m vessels service this

AiP: World’s Largest Car Carrier route. The ferry will transport up to 300 passengers at speeds

China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. of up to 28 knots, ? tted with the latest diesel engine emission received an Approval in Principle (AiP) certi? cate from control technologies in compliance with EPA Tier 4.

DNV for its 11,000-CEU capacity pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) design: 234 x 40m wide with 14 decks allowing

ClassNK AiP for MOL Ammonia FSRU 11,000 car equivalent units (CEUs) to be stored simultane- ously. The PCTC will use LNG as its primary fuel and will be equipped with a 4,200cbm LNG storage tank. Deltamarin helped to optimize the hull lines.

W&D Delivers Grace McAllister

Grace McAllister was delivered from Washburn & Dough- ty, a vessel with a Low Emission Vessel class notation from

ABS and quipped with 3516E Tier IV Caterpillar engines powering twin Schottel SRP 490 Z-drive units. Packed into

Image courtesy of MOL her 93’ x 38’ hull producing 6,770 horsepower, the GRACE achieved over 85 metric tons during her bollard pull cer-

ClassNK issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for an Am- ti? cation. Combining her eco-friendly CAT engines with monia FSRU (Ammonia Floating Storage and Regasi? cation

Markey winches on the bow and stern makes the American-

Unit) jointly developed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) made GRACE one of the most advanced and powerful ship- and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. Ammonia, which does docking tractor tugs serving the Port of New York.

not emit CO2 during combustion, is projected to be widely used as a source of clean energy for decarbonization, while the development of onshore facilities for storage and regasi? - cation is a challenge. ClassNK carried out a review of a con- ceptual design of the Ammonia FSRU based on its Part N of

Rules for the Survey and Construction of Steel Ships for ships carrying lique? ed gases in bulk, “Guidelines for Floating Off- shore Facilities for LNG/LPG Production, Storage, Of? oad- ing and Regasi? cation” and the other relevant rules, and ex- amined risk assessment taking into account the results of gas dispersion study.

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