Huajing LNG Transport Pte. Ltd. (HLT), a joint venture company in which NYK Line participates, held a naming ceremony on 4 August for a new dual-fuel LNG carrier ordered by CNOOC Group, the Chinese state-owned energy company. The vessel was named Greenergy River at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. shipyard in China, where it is currently under construction.

Greenergy River is the first of a series of six LNG carriers that HLT will deploy for CNOOC SG under the project. It is also, according to NYK, the first China-built LNG carrier involving NYK to be deployed under a long-term charter contract with a Chinese customer.

From August, the vessel is scheduled to transport LNG procured by CNOOC Group from suppliers worldwide, primarily to China. It will be managed by OPearl LNG Ship Management Company Limited, a ship-management company established jointly by NYK, CMES and CETS.

The ship is equipped with a dual-fuel engine — designated the X-DF 2.1 iCER — which uses both fuel oil and boil-off gas (LNG vaporised in cargo tanks during navigation) as fuel.

Vessel particulars:

• Cargo capacity: approx. 174,000 cbm
• Length: approx. 299.00 m
• Beam: 46.40 m
• Main engine: X-DF 2.1 iCER (dual-fuel slow-speed diesel engine)
• Builder: Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd.

HLT is a joint venture comprising NYK; CNOOC Gas and Power Singapore Trading & Marketing Pte. Ltd. (CNOOC SG), a subsidiary of the CNOOC Group; CETS Investment Management (HK) Co., Ltd. (CETS); and CMES LNG Project 4 Company Limited, a subsidiary of China Merchants Energy Shipping Co., Ltd. (CMES), a Chinese shipping company.