Hamburg, Germany: With the classification of the gas tanker, 'Gaschem Nordsee', Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has passed the 80 million GT milestone.
More than 6,870 ships are currently surveyed on a regular basis by GL. As a result, the fleet in service for GL has grown by ten million gross tonnes since September 2007.
The 'Gaschem Nordsee', which flies the German flag, was delivered in late March by Meyer Shipyard in Papenburg. The LPG/ethylene tanker is the first of four gas tankers of the same hull type to be built in Germany by 2010 by the Meyer shipyard and its sister firm Neptun Shipyard.
The 13, 878GT ship can hold up to 17,000 cubic metres of liquefied gas in its cargo tanks. Besides LPG, the tanker is also designed for the transport of liquefied ethylene gas (LEG), the key chemical for the petrochemical industry.
The tanker measures 154.95 metres in length and 22.7 metres at the beam, with a maximum depth of 10.6 metres and a speed of 17 knots.
'Gaschem Nordsee' will initially be deployed by Japan's Marubeni Group to transport liquefied gas to Asia.
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