On January 22, Taizhou Sanfu Shipbuilding delivered two dual-fuel container ships on the same day, marking a good start to the new year and laying a solid foundation for the efficient and high-quality completion of various annual goals and tasks in 2025.
In the morning of the same day, SF shipyard delivered the third ship in the series of 3500TEU dual-fuel (LNG+MGO) container ships to the American ship owner, and held a grand naming ceremony, the new ship was named “SEABOARD VERDE”.
This series of 3,500 TEU dual-fuel container ship is designed by Germany’s HB HUNTE design company and adopts bow type design. The main fuel of this ship is LNG (natural gas) and MGO (diesel), and it adopts vertical gas storage tank, which is the world’s largest vertical gas tank loaded on board so far. The ship can carry more than 1,000 reefer containers and is equipped with a remote reefer monitoring system. The EEDI index of the ship meets and exceeds the current industry standards, and has a high environmental performance.
Sanfu Shipbuilding successfully signed and delivered “NCL VESTLAND”, the first built 1300TEU dual-fuel (methanol) container ship for a Norwegian shipowner, in the afternoon of the same day.
This 1300 TEU dual-fuel (methanol) container ship is equipped with MGO+methanol dual-fuel main engine, using green methanol as the main fuel. The ship adopts straight bow and low resistance line design, and is equipped with many high-efficiency emission reduction equipments such as lithium battery pack, permanent magnet shaft generator, high-voltage shore power, etc., which improves the ship’s energy efficiency and reduces the operation cost. It has greatly helped shipowners cope with policies and regulations such as IMO Carbon Intensity (CII) and EU carbon trading.
The ship mainly serves along the North Sea and the Norwegian coastline, relying on the green methanol plant on the route, the ship will establish a “green transportation corridor” in Northern Europe, is a type of high loading and unloading efficiency, strong cargo-handling capacity, excellent economy, green environmental protection ship type.