{"id":2516,"date":"2019-08-01T07:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T04:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2019-08-01T07:07:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T04:07:23","slug":"marinvests-methanol-tanker-duo-reaches-operating-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/marinvests-methanol-tanker-duo-reaches-operating-milestone\/2516\/","title":{"rendered":"Marinvest\u2019s Methanol Tanker Duo Reaches Operating Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Two tankers, powered by dual-fuel ME-LGI (-Liquid Gas Injection Methanol) engines, have each passed 10,000 operating hours on alternative fuel, the vessels\u2019 owner, Sweden-based Marinvest, said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2016-built methanol tankers Mari Jone and Mari Boyle are managed on time charters for Waterfront Shipping and operate globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWhen introducing methanol as a two-stroke marine fuel, we encountered the usual teething problems, including addressing the liner lubrication because of methanol\u2019s potentially corrosive behaviour,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Ren\u00e9 Sejer Laursen, Sales &amp; Promotion Manager at MAN Energy Solutions, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said that its combined ME-LGI-powered fleet has passed a cumulative total of 50,000 operating hours on methanol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe service experience gathered after 50,000 hours of cumulative operation has ironed all such problems out and the ME-LGI engines are now running smoothly with no maintenance issues. In fact, they are even showing an improvement in fuel efficiency.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As explained by MAN Energy Solutions, methanol is a cost-competitive biodegradable, clean-burning marine fuel that significantly reduces smog-causing emissions such as particulates, sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxides, and also reduces greenhouse-gas emissions.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two tankers, powered by dual-fuel ME-LGI (-Liquid Gas Injection Methanol) engines, have each passed 10,000 operating hours on alternative fuel, the vessels\u2019 owner, Sweden-based Marinvest, said. The 2016-built methanol tankers Mari Jone and Mari Boyle are managed on time charters for Waterfront Shipping and operate globally. \u201cWhen introducing methanol as a two-stroke marine fuel, we &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20,58],"tags":[475,356],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","category-news","category-tanker-news","tag-marinvests","tag-milestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","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=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}