LNG-fueled tugboatSakigake (Photo politeness NYK).
From left, Toshiya Kozawa, President, Keihin Dock Co., Ltd.; Tsutomu Yokoyama, General Manager, Green Business Group, NYK. Photo politeness NYK.
NYK wrapped up an agreement with Keihin Dock Co., Ltd., an NYK Group business, to customize a tugboat to ammonia-fuel specs. Sakigake, a tugboat presently sustained by melted gas (LNG) and also run in Tokyo Bay by NYK Group business Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha Corporation will certainly be transformed to operate ammonia gas by a target conclusion year of 2024.
This R&D was launched in October 2021 by NYK and also IHI Power Systems Co.,Ltd (IPS) and also embraced as component of the Green Innovation Fund job within Japan’s New Energy and also Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) for the advancement of vessels furnished with a locally created ammonia-fueled engine.
In the advancement procedure, there were different style difficulties being used ammonia as gas, yet both firms got rid of these difficulties without altering the dimension of the traditional tugboat and also obtained Approval in Principle (AiP) from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) in July 2022.
NYK will certainly start alteration in financial 2023 with the objective of recognizing presentation procedures in the port of Yokohama in financial 2024.
Sakigake Main Particulars
Length general: 37.2 m
Breadth: 10.2 m
Molded deepness: 4.4 m
Gross tonnage: 272 heaps
Shipowner: NYK
Flag: Japan
