Dutch shipyard Ferus Smit has introduced the supply of the MV Greenland, a cement service that not holds the title as world’s LNG-powered dry cargo ship. 

The Greenland, identified across the shipyard as Nb. 423, was handed over to its new house owners JT Cement within the weeks main as much as Christmas. After at sea trials and checks, the ship departed Delfzijl, Netherlands on Wednesday on its first industrial voyage to Rostock, Germany the place it should obtain its first cement cargo.

The MV Greenland is a devoted cement service and the primary ever dry cargo ship to be powered by liquified pure fuel. The distinctive design incorporates vertical LNG gasoline tanks built-in into the hull within the foreship.

The cement cargo system consists of a completely automated cement loading and unloading system that makes use of compressed air to maneuver cement via absolutely enclosed pipes, making loading and unloading mud free.

JT Cement is a three way partnership between Erik Thun AB and KG Jebsen Cement from Norway.

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Photos courtesy Ferus Smit