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Matson Takes Up Option for ME-GI Retrofit

Increasing trend of shipowners choosing dual-fuel retrofits Matson Navigation Company has confirmed that it will convert the main engine aboard its container ship, ‘Kaimana Hila’, from an MAN B&W S90ME-C10.5 unit to a dual-fuel ME-GI unit capable …
Mar 17, 2023 / Vessels

Highly Efficient ME-GI Engines at Heart of Hybrid-Propulsion CLdN RoRo Newbuildings

MAN Energy Solutions has won the order for 4 × dual-fuel MAN B&W 6S60 ME-GI engines in connection with the construction of two hybrid, 8,000 lane-metre, RoRo vessels for CLdN, the Luxembourg-based shipping group. Both 234-metre vessels are …
Apr 21, 2022 / Curious

ME-GI Engines to Power Liquid-CO2 Carriers in Groundbreaking Carbon-Transport-and-Storage Project

ME-GI engines help reduce vessels’ own emissions to minimum; have potential to set new standard for LNG-fuelled ships carrying liquid CO2Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd. has ordered 2 × MAN B&W 7S35ME-GI dual-fuel engines in connection with …
Mar 11, 2022 / Curious

Hapag-Lloyd Exercises Option for Further ME-GI Engines

Total of 12 × dual-fuel engines now bound for series of ultra-large boxshipsDaewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has ordered 6 × MAN B&W 11G95ME-GI Mk10.5 main engines in connection with the building of 6 × ultra-large, 23,500+-teu …
Jul 1, 2021 / Curious

MAN Energy Solutions wins order for dual-fuel engines for 10 Seaspan’s boxhips

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has confirmed an order for 10 × 8G95ME-GI10.5 engines in connection with the building of 10 × 15,000-teu containerships for Seaspan Corporation. The vessels are scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2023, and will …
Apr 2, 2021 / Curious

MAN Energy Solutions wins order to supply 10 ME-GI dualfuel engines to a series of 10 VLCCs

Dual-fuel engine ordered for series of Very Large Crude CarriersMAN Energy Solutions has won the order to supply 10 × MAN B&W 7G80ME-GI Mk9.5 dual-fuel engines to a series of 10 × 300,000-dwt VLCCs distributed among shipowners, Advantage Tankers …
Mar 24, 2021 / Curious

ME-GI to Power Ultra-Large Hapag-Lloyd Containerships

Six individual, dual-fuel main-engines bound for series of vesselsMAN Energy Solutions has won an order for 6 × MAN B&W 11G95ME-GI Mk10.5 main engines in connection with the building of 6 × ultra-large, 23,500+-teu container vessels for …
Jan 28, 2021 / Curious

ME-GI Engine Sails Through Sea Trials

ME-GI engines for Eastern Pacific Shipping boxship series feature negligible methane-slip and are first to feature new PVU; MAN Energy Solutions’ low-speed, dual-fuel references now exceed 300 units with ME-GI recording over 1 million operating hours …
Aug 13, 2020 / Curious

Main Engine Factory Acceptance Testing Completed for the M/V George III

Honolulu, HI-based Pasha Hawaii Tuesday (Mar 05) announced that factory acceptance testing of the dual-fueled, MAN Diesel & Turbo ME-GI (-Gas Injection) main engine has been completed for the M/V George III, the first of two Liquefied Natural Gas …
Mar 6, 2019 / Vessels