Langh Ship receives first vessel of new feeder containership series

Finnish shipping company Langh Ship took delivery of a new container vessel during a ceremony in China on Saturday, March 15.

Ingrid is the first unit in a new series of 1,200TEU feeder containerships built by PaxOcean Zhoushan. It will be operated under charter by UK-based Borchard Lines.

The ship is optimised for carrying 45-foot containers both in the holds and on deck. The design was developed by Langh Ship in collaboration with Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI).

Among the unique features of Langh Ship's new feeder vessel are the hatch covers. Onboard Ingrid, the hatch covers can be opened in three sections along the beam of the vessel, which gives better accessibility to the cargo holds, even if the entire bay on deck is not discharged.

The cargo holds are fitted with cell guides, which can be adjusted in sections between 40-foot and 45-foot container positions.

The hull lines of the vessel have been optimised in such a way that cargo capacity can be maximised while minimising energy consumption and still allowing the vessel to maintain a speed of 18 knots if needed.

The new feeder vessel is equipped with a two-stroke, slow-speed main engine and technologies supplied by Langh Ship's sister company Langh Tech. Among those is the hybrid scrubber, which may be operated continuously in closed loop mode without time restrictions.

The exhaust gas cleaning system on board has been prepared for the installation of Langh Tech's new onboard carbon capture system, which captures CO2 from the exhaust gas flow to enable a reduction of the ship's CO2 emissions by up to 50 per cent.

The captured CO2 is then chemically bound into sodium carbonate, which can be utilised in a variety of other industrial applications.

Langh Tech's carbon capture system can also be operated while the vessel is burning biofuels. This could bring the ship's CO2 emissions down to zero in the future.