Eco-friendly Ship 'Meka' Rises... HJ Heavy Industries Delivers First 7700TEU LNG Dual-Fuel Container Ship

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Targeting the Decarbonization and High Value-Added Vessel Market

The Mecca of Eco-Friendly Shipbuilding is Busan!

HJ Heavy Industries (CEO Yu Sang-cheol) is showcasing its eco-friendly ship technology by delivering an LNG dual-fuel container ship built at its Busan Yeongdo Shipyard to the shipowner.

HJ Heavy Industries announced that it delivered the first of two 7,700 TEU LNG dual-fuel container ships ordered from a European shipowner in 2022 on the 20th. The delivery signing ceremony was held at the Yeongdo Shipyard with representatives from the shipowner and HJ Heavy Industries in attendance.

HJ Heavy Industries delivered a 7,700 TEU LNG DF container ship.

Membrane-type fuel tank of HJ Heavy Industries' 7700TEU-class LNG DF container ship.

The vessel delivered by the company is a 272-meter-long, 22-knot operating speed, state-of-the-art 7,700 TEU LNG dual-fuel propulsion container ship reflecting advanced specifications and eco-friendly design.

It maximizes container loading capacity by applying the Mark III membrane-type fuel tank from French company GTT, securing a storage capacity of 6,100 cubic meters. It is designed to meet the International Maritime Organization’s regulations on sulfur oxide and carbon dioxide emissions.

Only a very few shipyards worldwide are known to be capable of designing and building LNG dual-fuel ships by applying membrane-type fuel tanks, the same technology used in LNG carriers’ cargo tanks.

Since re-entering the merchant ship market, HJ Heavy Industries has successfully delivered all six 5,500 TEU methanol-ready container ships and has now safely delivered the first newly developed 7,700 TEU LNG dual-fuel container ship, reaffirming its competitiveness in the eco-friendly container ship sector.

With the upcoming delivery of the second ship and eight 7,900 TEU container ships, totaling ten vessels of similar design, the company is expected to greatly enhance productivity and profitability through repetitive construction effects.

HJ Heavy Industries is proving its accumulated technology and competitiveness in the global market by achieving results in eco-friendly ship technologies such as methanol-ready and methanol-powered ships, LNG dual-fuel, carbon capture and storage (CCS) vessels, and ammonia carriers, as well as in the medium-to-large container ship sector.

Yu Sang-cheol, CEO of HJ Heavy Industries, said, “Successfully building and delivering the first 7,700 TEU LNG dual-fuel container ship has given momentum to subsequent constructions and aggressive sales activities for this ship type. We will meet shipowners’ expectations through the development and construction of eco-friendly, high value-added ships suitable for the decarbonization era.”

HJ Heavy Industries plans to complete the finishing process of the second ship currently under construction and deliver it to the shipowner following the first ship delivered on this day.

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