{"id":10159,"date":"2020-05-20T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T07:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/work-starts-on-ag-ems-lng-ferry-conversion\/10159\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T07:23:27","slug":"work-starts-on-ag-ems-lng-ferry-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/work-starts-on-ag-ems-lng-ferry-conversion\/10159\/","title":{"rendered":"Work starts on AG Ems LNG ferry conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dutch shipyard Royal Niestern Sander has started building a new aft for passenger ferry that will be converted to run on LNG for German ferry operator AG Ems.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of Royal Niestern Sander <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The two companies signed a deal<\/a> to convert the 1986-built M\u00fcnsterland passenger ferry in July last year.<\/p>\n

Besides building a brand new aft, the works include adding dual-fuel engines, LNG storage tanks, installations, pipelines, and other systems.<\/p>\n

The project is backed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.<\/p>\n

This is not the first LNG-powered ferry for AG Ems as the German company has been operating two such vessels since 2015, namely Ostfriesland and Helgoland.<\/p>\n

Ostfriesland, a sister-ship of M\u00fcnsterland, is the first ferry in Europe converted to run on LNG while Helgoland is Germany’s first newbuild LNG-powered ferry.<\/p>\n

AG Ems will put the M\u00fcnsterland back into service between the Dutch Eemshaven to the German Wadden Sea island Borkum in the start of summer-schedule at Easter 2021.<\/p>\n

The post Work starts on AG Ems LNG ferry conversion<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dutch shipyard Royal Niestern Sander has started building a new aft for passenger ferry that will be converted to run on LNG for German ferry operator AG Ems. Image courtesy of Royal Niestern Sander The two companies signed a deal to convert the 1986-built M\u00fcnsterland passenger ferry in July last year. Besides building a brand …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1273,6549,2034,523,2138,1351],"class_list":["post-10159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-conversion","tag-ems","tag-ferry","tag-lng","tag-starts","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}