Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and INPEX Shipping have signed a long-term charter contract for a newbuild LNG carrier that was today (17 April) officially named Harmonic Breeze at at Hanwha Ocean’s Geoje Shipyard in South Korea. The vessel has a dual-fuel ME-GA main engines and is also equipped with an air lubrication system and a shaft generator to help reduce its fuel consumption. Image: MOL

Norway’s Klaveness Combination Carriers ASA (KCC) has today (9 April) taken delivery of MV Bastion, the second of three contracted third-generation CABU vessels, from New Yangzi Shipyard in China. Like sister vessel MV Balder, which was delivered earlier this year, the MV Bastion features a range of energy efficiency measures including an air lubrication system, a shaft generator, an EcoEGR fuel-optimised main engine, and a Mewis duct. In addition, KCC highlighted that the vessels are also, ‘to the extent possible’, prepared for future retrofitting to enable the use of zero or near-zero (ZNZ) emission fuels, and are prepared for shore power. ‘Designed for trades […]

As its project to develop a new Energy Saving Device Retrofitting Addendum is now approaching the consultation phase, BIMCO is inviting stakeholders with relevant experience in retrofit technologies or energy efficiency measures to join the ‘sounding board’. In a statement issued today (9 April), BIMCO said that the Addendum will include a ‘cost–benefit sharing mechanism’, which will aim to ‘encourage both owners and charterers to invest in energy saving retrofit projects by clarifying how risks, costs, and performance outcomes are allocated’. Members of the sounding board will have the opportunity to review and comment on the draft text before it […]