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Spanish shipping and ferry company Baleària on Tuesday (26 May) said efforts to retrofit it’s Sicilia to run on liquified natural gas (LNG) are progressing as planned and will be completed by July despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Construction works have resumed over the past few weeks and the LNG storage tank has already been installed, it added.
Upon completion, it will be the sixth ferry in the company’s fleet to run on low sulphur bunker fuels.
The company notes the retrofitting process for Sicilia is almost identical to its sister ship, Naples, which consists of installing a tank with a 425 cubic meter capacity inside the vessel (not externally with most other ships) and adapting its two engines, MAN9L48 / 60 to 9L51 / 60DF.
The tank’s capacity will allow the ship to have a range of about 1,100 nautical miles, added Baleària.
The company aims to have a total of nine ships sailing on LNG-powered engines by 2021.
Related: Baleària receives LNG-fuelled “Marie Curie” smart ferry from yard
Related: Baleària adds LNG-fuelled converted ferry “Naples” to fleet
Photo credit: Baleària
Published: 1 June, 2020
KRISO, POSCO, EK Heavy Industries, Mytec and Valmax developing LNG bunkering along Korean coast.
Noah T. Jaffe of Reed Smith compares uses of LNG as a marine fuel with other IMO 2020 compliance options.
The bunkering operation was carried out on the AIDAprima at the port of Funchal, Madeira.
The harbour tug is slated to commence operations at the port of Singapore around mid-2019.
GAC said it will supply LNG as marine fuel from Pilot’s proposed Galveston LNG Bunker Port terminal project, the first dedicated LNG bunker terminal in the region.
LNG infrastructure can be utilised when the industry moves towards LBG and synthetic methane.
Caroline Yang, President of SSA, addresses issues earlier raised by players; including PMC No. 04, the seven-day restriction, contactless bunkering, sampling point, hose connection, and more.
IBIA Asia, ABIS, sources from Singapore’s bunkering and surveying companies, and an industry veteran share with Manifold Times the issues expected from MPA’s latest Covid-19 measures.
The top three positive movers in the 2020 bunker supplier list are Hong Lam Fuels Pte Ltd (+13); Chevron Singapore Pte Ltd (+12); and SK Energy International (+8), according to MPA list.
‘We will operate in the Singapore bunkering market from the Tokyo, with support from local staff at Sumitomo Corporation Singapore,’ source tells Manifold Times.
Changes include abolishing advance declaration of bunkers as dangerous cargo, reducing pilotage fees on vessels receiving bunkers, and a ‘whitelist’ system for bunker tankers.
Claim relates to deliveries of MGO to the vessels Pacific Diligence, Pacific Valkyrie, Pacific Defiance, Crest Alpha 1, and Pacific Warlock between March 2020 to April 2020.
