South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & & Marine Engineer is readied to obtain $120 million from Matson’s order for 2 brand-new LNG-powered container and also roll-on/roll-off vessels positioned at NASSCO.

South Korea’s Yonhap information reported that the agreement was authorized in between DSEC, a subsidiary of DSME, and also General Dynamic’s NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, where the vessels will certainly be developed. The agreement covers style and also supply of products, Yonhap records.

NASSCO has actually partnered with DSEC on practically every one of its industrial shipbuilding jobs because 2006, with each other generating 4 ship styles for 5 different Jones Act proprietors until now to day.

Matson states the brand-new vessels, called the Kanaloa course, will certainly be improved a 3,500 TEU system, with confined garage room for as much as 800 automobiles. They will certainly determine 265 meters long by 34.9 meters broad, as well as additionally include a gas reliable hull style, ecologically risk-free dual hull gas containers, and also fresh water ballast systems.

The Kanaloa- course will certainly additionally be geared up with double gas engines, which Matson states would certainly be “capable” of operating either standard gas oils or melted gas with “some adaptation for LNG.”

Matson positioned the newbuild order this past August for a complete rate of $511 million. The business states the brand-new vessels will certainly change 3 older and also much less reliable ships presently in solution on the Hawaii path.