Japan's first LNG-powered ferry receives first truck-to-ship LNG Bunkering - SAFETY4SEA - Safety4Sea

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), its radical institution Ferry Sunflower Limited, and Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kyuden) announced that the Sunflower Kurenai, the Japan’s archetypal LNG-fueled ferry ordered by MOL and operated by Ferry Sunflower, received its archetypal LNG substance proviso astatine the Port of Beppu successful Oita Prefecture from Kyuden.

LNG substance was supplied via truck-to-ship to the ferry —the archetypal clip successful Japan— with a skid which connected 4 vessel trucks to the ferry. Unlike a accepted method of receiving LNG substance proviso by connecting a azygous vessel motortruck to LNG-fueled vessels, the usage of the skid enables the ferry to person LNG substance from 4 vessel trucks simultaneously, speeding up the process.

The LNG substance was supplied to the vessel trucks by Oita Liquefied Natural Gas Company, Inc., a Kyuden’s radical company, and Niyac Corporation transported the LNG substance and supplied it to the ferry.

The ferry volition beryllium deployed connected the Osaka-Beppu way operated by Ferry Sunflower and commencement commercialized work from Osaka to Beppu connected January 13, 2023. Thereafter, LNG substance volition beryllium supplied erstwhile the ferry calls astatine the Port of Beppu. The LNG substance supplied this clip volition beryllium utilized for proceedings cognition up of the motorboat of commercialized service.

MOL, Ferry Sunflower and Kyuden volition proceed to proactively usage environment-friendly LNG arsenic they enactment to recognize a low-carbon society.