C-LNG has announced that MSC Washington, the LNG Dual Fuel 14K TEU Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV), equipped with LNG Fuel Gas Supply System (FGSS) produced by C-LNG Solutions Pte Ltd was well back to the Yangzijiang Shipyard, Jiangsu, China on 3rd March 2022, after 7 days of successful sea trial combined with gas trial.
This ULCV has set many new records in the industry including the selection of the world's largest C-type LNG fuel tank (12300cbm) patent designed by C-LNG.
Previously, the prevailing selection of the LNG fuel tank for the ultra large LNG DF container vessels was either membrane tank or B-Type tank. As most of the container ship operators assumed the round shape of the C-type tank would kill some TEU spaces although C-type tank maintains tremendous advantages on cost saving and friendly operation.
“With proper design and collaboration between FGSS designer and ship designer, C-type tank is also suitable for large container vessels, and the FGSS system based on C-type tank is the most reliable, operation friendly and cost saving solution”, Mr. Yang Jiansong, Technical Director of Tiger Gas, the original owner of the ship demonstrated after sea trial.
C-LNG’s design team in Singapore designed the system according to offshore engineering standards based on many years’ experiences accumulated in the offshore oil & gas engineering modules. With friendly man-machine interface, stable system operation and excellent overall performance the system has been highly recognized by ship owner and other partners during system installation and commissioning. The system was delivered successfully and timely (11 months after contract signing). Close co-operation with reliable sub-vendors like Kongsberg for control system also enabled the extremely smooth project execution and commissioning.
This project created a new record for speedy commissioning compared with other similar projects: 28 days of pre-commissioning after equipment installation, 14 days of at berth of gas up (include tank cool down, 2300cbm LNG bunkering, gas equipment testing), and 7 days of sea trial, much shorter than the other similar projects.
The ship will be ready to phase in service in world's largest container fleet as her 1st mega flagship powered by LNG, MSC’s technical team was also involved in the gas trial and sea trial.
“The performance of FGSS is excellent which shows the strong capability of C-LNG, it is the best LNG system I’ve seen”, said Mr. Paul Lucero, the Superintendent for LNG system from MSC who had also participated in another world largest LNG DF ULCV new building project in China.