Ferry Sunflower’s LNG-powered ferry bunkered in Japan

Ferry Sunflower’s, a subsidiary of the Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), LNG-fuelled ferry was bunkered at the Port of Beppu, Japan.

PHOTO: LNG stem delivered to Ferry Sunflower’s LNG-powered ferry Sunflower Kurenai via TTS transfer. MOL

LNG was delivered for the first time to the Sunflower Kurenai, Japan’s first LNG-fuelled ferry, via a truck-to-ship (TTS) transfer. It was also the first time a TTS transfer was carried out in Japan.

The delivery was accelerated using a skid - which enables vessels to receive fuel from multiple trucks simultaneously, unlike the conventional method that allows supply from one truck at a time.

Oita Liquefied Natural Gas Company, a unit of Japanese power company Kyuden Group, supplied the LNG, while transportation provider Niyac Corporation transported and delivered the LNG to the ferry.

The ferry will be deployed commercially by Ferry Sunflower on the Osaka-Beppu route from 13 January.

MOL claims that LNG as fuel reduces carbon dioxide emissions by almost 25% compared to conventional marine fuels and considers it “the most effective low-carbon ship fuel at this time.”

By Tuhin Roy

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