Indian shipbuilder Chowgule and Company has begun conducting sea trials of a new dry cargo vessel ordered by Netherlands-based shortsea shipping specialist Boomsma Shipping.
The vessel belongs to a series of eight that have been commissioned together with Netherlands-based JR Shipping Group and in close cooperation with German shipping company Leonhardt and Blumberg.
JR Shipping will take delivery of ships numbers six and eight in the series, which will be designed by Conoship International in the Netherlands. The delivery of ship number six is scheduled for the end of June 2027 and ship number eight will follow at the end of February 2028.
The remaining six ships will be delivered to Boomsma beginning with Frisian Future's hand-over scheduled for later this year.
The vessel has a length of 113.4 metres, a deadweight of 8,500, a total hold capacity of 13,900 cubic metres, and four Volvo diesel generators fitted with selective catalytic reduction technology to ensure compliance with IMO Tier III NOx emissions standards.
JR Shipping earlier said that it expects the new ships will be able to generate between 50 and 90 per cent fewer emissions compared to vessels of similar size.
