Hapag-Lloyd concludes LNG-capable container ship series

German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has taken delivery of its 12th LNG-capable dual-fuel vessel.

IMAGE: LBM bunkering of Hapag-Lloyd container ship in Wilhelmshaven. Linkedin of Hapag-Lloyd

The 23,000-TEU container ship, Wilhelmshaven Express, is the “final vessel” in its LNG dual-fuel series, the company said in a social media post.

“While LNG (liquefied natural gas) serves as a transitional fuel today, we are determined to switch to non-fossil fuels as soon as they are available in sufficient quantities worldwide,” Hapag-Lloyd noted in an earlier report.

LNG-capable vessels can also run on low- and zero-emission alternatives like liquefied bio- and e-methane, to significantly lower a ship’s greenhouse gas intensity.

Hapag-Lloyd recently bunkered two of its dual-fuel vessels with a combined 4,800 mt of liquefied biomethane (LBM) in Europe under its contract with the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA). The fuel was supplied by Gasum.

The company plans to gradually integrate more vessels from its 12-ship dual-fuel fleet into the ZEMBA partnership over the course of this year.

By Konica Bhatt

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