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Japanese project to build ammonia-fuelled gas carrier
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), Tsuneishi Shipbuilding and Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding have launched a joint project aimed at developing and building an oceangoing liquefied gas carrier that will use ammonia as its main fuel
The vessel is envisioned as a mid-size ammonia and LPG carrier at about 180-m long, equipped with a main engine that can run mainly on ammonia, and targeted at achieving no carbon dioxide emissions while underway by using some of its ammonia cargo as fuel. The project partners are currently developing the Mitsui-MAN B&W type S60 two-stroke dual-fuel ammonia engine for use on this vessel.
MOL conceives the ship’s cargo tank capacity at about 40,000 m3. This ship type is in the mainstream of ammonia carriers used for international maritime ammonia transport and the vessel will call at major ammonia and LPG shipping and receiving ports around the world.
The three companies will move forward on their joint development and design of the ship, with plans for the delivery and introduction of the vessel by 2026 as the first “net-zero emissions oceangoing vessel,” as stated in MOL’s Group Environmental Vision 2.1.
The three companies anticipate rising demand for ocean transport of ammonia and aim to offer clean ocean transport options for customers using net-zero emissions vessels.
In other related news, Japanese shipping firm Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore have joined an industry consortium developing an ammonia bunker supply chain in Singapore, while an EU backed project is aiming to to develop ammonia engines for commercial use.
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