{"id":19108,"date":"2020-10-09T23:03:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/asahi-tanker-orders-worlds-1st-zero-emission-tankers\/19108\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T23:03:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:03:31","slug":"asahi-tanker-orders-worlds-1st-zero-emission-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/asahi-tanker-orders-worlds-1st-zero-emission-tankers\/19108\/","title":{"rendered":"Asahi Tanker orders world\u2019s 1st zero-emission tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Illustration; Image courtesy; Asahi Tanker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-intro-font-size\"> Japanese shipping firm Asahi Tanker Co. has placed an order for the construction of two electrically-powered tankers.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese shipbuilders Koa Sangyou Co and Imura Zosen KK will be in charge of constructing one vessel each, while  Kawasaki Heavy Industries will serve as the system integrator for the duo.<\/p>\n<p>The two ships, described as the world\u2019s first zero-emission electric-powered tankers, are slated for delivery in March 2022 and March 2023 respectively.<\/p>\n<p> The two tankers will adopt the \u201ce5 tanker\u201d design developed by e5 Lab Inc, a company set up by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Asahi Tanker, Exeno Yamamizu Corporation and Mitsubishi Corporation to build up infrastructure services in the marine shipping industry that focus on electrically powered vessels.<\/p>\n<p> The tankers will be powered completely by large-capacity lithium ion batteries and are slated to go into service as bunker vessels in Tokyo Bay. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Specifications <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dimensions:<\/strong> LOA 62m \/ Breadth 10.30m \/ Draft 4.15m<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ship classification society:<\/strong> Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) <\/li>\n<li><strong>Cargo: <\/strong>Fuel oil <\/li>\n<li><strong>Gross tonnage:<\/strong> 499 tons <\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed: <\/strong> About 10 knots <\/li>\n<li><strong>Cargo tank capacity:<\/strong>   1,280m3<\/li>\n<li><strong>Propulsion equipment<\/strong>: Azimuth thrusters 300kw x 2 Side thrusters 68kw x 2 <\/li>\n<li><strong>Battery capacity<\/strong>: 3,480kWh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The vessels will integrate various automated equipment and digital tools including the Internet of Things (IoT) to reduce the crews\u2019 onboard workload and increase the ship\u2019s operating efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/asahi-tanker-orders-worlds-1st-zero-emission-tankers\/\">Asahi Tanker orders world&#8217;s 1st zero-emission tankers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\">Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration; Image courtesy; Asahi Tanker Japanese shipping firm Asahi Tanker Co. has placed an order for the construction of two electrically-powered tankers. Japanese shipbuilders Koa Sangyou Co and Imura Zosen KK will be in charge of constructing one vessel each, while Kawasaki Heavy Industries will serve as the system integrator for the duo. The two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2436,4054,1501,897,198,72,5642],"class_list":["post-19108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-1st","tag-asahi","tag-orders","tag-tanker","tag-tankers","tag-worlds","tag-zeroemission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108","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=19108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/19109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}