Crowley Maritime Corp. has christened its second LNG-ready product tanker to be used within the Jones Act coastwise commerce.

The 50,000 dead-weight-ton (dwt), 330,000-barrel-capacity Texas is the second of 4 new Jones Act product tankers ordered by Crowley. The vessel joins sister ship Ohio, which was christened in November. The tankers are the primary to obtain the American Bureau of Shipping’s (ABS) LNG-Ready Level 1 approval, that means the choice to transform to liquified pure fuel for propulsion sooner or later. 

The 4 vessels are being constructed by Philly Shipyard (previously generally known as Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc.), with development administration companies offered by Crowley’s subsidiary Jensen Maritime. The two extra product tankers have deliberate deliveries later this yr.

All are based mostly on a confirmed Hyundai Mipo Dockyards (HMD) design. Texas is 600 ft lengthy and is able to carrying crude oil or refined petroleum merchandise. 

“Crowley welcomes this industry defining, LNG-Ready vessel into service,” stated Rob Grune, senior vice chairman and common supervisor for Crowley’s petroleum companies group.  “Not only will this be a high -performance vessel capable of meeting or exceeding our customers’ petroleum transportation needs within the U.S.-Coastwise trade, it will do so in a way that is more environmentally friendly than those that have come before her.”

The ceremony, happening at the South Florida Petroleum Terminal (The Public Dock) in Fort Lauderdale. was attended by a small group together with representatives from SeaRiver Maritime, the vessel’s charterer, with Doris Evans, spouse of vice chairman of planning for Crowley’s petroleum companies group Eric Evans, performing the custom of christening the vessel by breaking a bottle of champagne throughout the hull.