WATCH: World’s First LNG-Powered Dry Cargo Vessel Launched
Ferus Smit not too long ago celebrated the launch of the Greenland, the world’s first dry cargo vessel to be fueled by clean-burning liquified pure gasoline.
The sideways launch passed off October 31 on the Ferus Smit shipyard in Westerbroek, the Netherlands.
The Greenland is a devoted cement provider constructed for the three way partnership JT cement, made up of Erik Thun AB with KG Jebsen Cement (KGJ) from Norway.
The ship is provided with a totally automated cement loading and unloading system primarily based on the precept of fluidization of cement utilizing compressed air, which permits the cement to be pumped by way of a totally closed – thus mud free – piping system to shore services.
The launch comes lower than a month after the ship’s 130 cubic meter LNG gas tank was delivered to the yard and put in vertically within the ahead a part of the vessel.
A video of the launch is beneath:
Photos courtesy Ferus Smit
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