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Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power Co.,Inc has actually participated in long-term transport agreements contracts with Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and also Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd (MOL) that will certainly see both business buy the globe’s very first LNG-fueled huge coal service providers.
They will certainly be utilized to import coal to Kyuden’s coal-fired nuclear power plant.
While a declaration released by Kyuden, NYK and also MOL claims a whole lot concerning the decreases in SOx, NOx and also carbon dioxide exhausts from the ships, it makes no reference of the exhausts that will certainly be created by the coal that they bring– yet that’s one more tale.
Both ships will certainly be 95,000 dwt vessels with measurements of 235 meters size and also 38 meters beam of light. The NYK ship will certainly be constructed at Oshima Shipbuilding for shipment in April 2023, while the MOL ship will certainly be constructed at Namura Shipbuilding for shipment in June 2023.
The LNG obtained for Kyuden’s thermal nuclear power plant will certainly be provided to the vessels as gas at the packing center of Kitakyushu Liquefied Natural Gas Co., Inc., a 75% had subsidiary of Kyuden.
