![\"Keel](\"https:\/\/cdn.offshorewind.biz\/file\/sites\/6\/2020\/08\/16214339\/Keel-laid-for-MOLs-2nd-large-LNG-bunkering-vessel-1024x520.jpg\")
The unit of China State Shipbuilding Corporation says it held the ceremony on August 12.<\/p>\n
Hudong started work<\/a> on the LNG bunkering ship late April and carried out pre-fabrication works for several months prior to setting the vessels\u2019 module in place for final assembly.<\/p>\n The 18,600-cbm capacity vessel will be 135 meters long, the same as the first ship in this batch chartered by Total and named Gas Agilty<\/a> <\/p>\n MOL and Total claim these are the world’s largest LNG bunkering vessels.<\/p>\n To remind, Gas Agilty departed Hudong’s Jiangnan yard in May and its AIS data shows it is expected to reach Rotterdam on August 23.<\/p>\n In Rotterdam, it will be supplying the fuel to CMA CGM’s giant nine containerships<\/a> but also other vessels in the Northern Europe area.<\/p>\n Both of the LNG bunkering ships feature GTT’s Mark III Flex membrane containment system and Wartsila’s dual-fuel engine.<\/p>\n Furthermore, Hudong says it would boost the performance of the second ship compared to its sister vessel.<\/p>\n As part of the upgrade, the ship will have a 25 percent higher loading and unloading rate for improved operations, according to the yard.<\/p>\n Once delivered in the second part of 2021, the LNG bunkering ship will be stationed in the Marseille-Fos area in France.<\/p>\n This vessel will supply LNG in the Mediterranean area to a wide range of vessels, including six containerships<\/a> CMA CGM chartered from Eastern Pacific Shipping.<\/p>\n MOL will operate the vessel under French flag together with Gazocean, a unit of Total.<\/p>\n The post Keel laid for MOL’s 2nd large LNG bunkering vessel<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" China\u2019s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has held a keel laying ceremony for the second LNG bunkering vessel owned by Japan\u2019s MOL and chartered by France-based Total. Image: Hudong-Zhonghua The unit of China State Shipbuilding Corporation says it held the ceremony on August 12. Hudong started work on the LNG bunkering ship late April and carried out pre-fabrication …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1397,1594,2550,2551,4435,523,3731,549],"class_list":["post-15666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-2nd","tag-bunkering","tag-keel","tag-laid","tag-large","tag-lng","tag-mols","tag-vessel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666","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=15666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/15667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}