Feature 2 | RO-RO FERRY
The yard is lifting down block that covers the engine room seen in top picture.
overall length of 170m and weighing in at 4000dwt and 20,000gt. Tey will be able to carry 1500 passengers and have 300 cabins, and also able to carry 600 cars. Te vessels will open up two new routes
for the company, between Bergen and Stavanger in Norway and the Danish ports of Hirtshals, and between the Norwegian port of Langesund and Hirtshals. As well as Norway, Sweden and
Finland, the use of LNG has also attracted considerable interest in Denmark, and the Danish Maritime Authority completed an in-depth report into its potential as a fuel type late last year. Te focus of the study was how to create
an adequate network of LNG bunkering facilities that could support a marked increase in the number of vessels running off it, aſter concluding that the payback time and amount of fitting a newbuild with LNG capability was much the same as fitting it with a scrubber system.
Construction of the Forward engine room can be seen at the STX shipyard in Turku, Finland. The engines and other equipment are covered with blue protective covers.
52 The Naval Architect May 2012 “Te difference is so small that the key
issue instead ought to be the availability of LNG, rather than the difference in pay-back time between the LNG and HFO/scrubber strategy. Tis means that for LNG to become an important fuel, availability is the key issue for the near term future,” the report said. In conclusion the report considered that
the one major issue facing the development of a wide scale LNG bunkering network is the development of safety guidelines for handling the fuel in terminals; and secondly the commercial problem that since the initial amounts of vessels using the fuel would be
comparatively low, start-up costs would very likely be high, which would probably lead to the fuel being relatively expensive. “Since investments in terminals take
place stepwise (a tank or bunker vessel cannot be expanded continuously) the capacity utilisation will oſten be low in the beginning. Terefore, the studied terminals have a high specific cost. Consequently, the terminal owner/operator will have to charge very high prices, make losses, or need support until the capacity utilisation (i.e.
the demand) increases,” concluded the report. NA
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