Sea trials completed for COSCO Shipping's newest LNG carrier

China's Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has completed conducting sea trials of a new LNG carrier slated for COSCO Shipping subsidiary COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation.

The vessel has an LOA of 299 metres, a beam of 46.4 metres, a depth of 26.25 metres, and a total cargo capacity of 174,000 cubic metres. The ship also boasts a twin-skeg design as well as and other systems for improving hydrodynamics and reducing carbon emissions.

The ship is powered by a dual-fuel diesel engine equipped with an intelligent control by exhaust recycling (ICER) system, which can help reduce methane slip in gas mode as well as greenhouse gas emissions.

By cooling and recirculating the exhaust gas, the ICER system allows some of the methane in the exhaust gas to be re-combusted, thus further reducing the ship's emissions.

The new LNG carrier belongs to a series of ships that also include five examples built by Hudong-Zhonghua for QatarEnergy as part of the latter's fleet upgrade program.