AAL Shipping takes delivery of sixth methanol-ready vessel

Singapore-based AAL Shipping has taken delivery of its sixth methanol-ready vessel from China.

IMAGE: AAL Shipping’s methanol-ready vessel AAL Dammam. AAL Shipping

Methanol-ready means the vessel is currently not equipped to operate on methanol but is designed for future retrofitting to enable methanol propulsion. This implies the vessel will initially rely on fossil-based marine fuels until the retrofit is undertaken.

Named AAL Dammam, the vessel is the sixth in a series of eight ordered from CSSC Huangpu-Wenchong Shipyard in Guangzhou, China.

It has now entered service and will be used to transport renewable energy cargo from China to the UK.

The fifth vessel in the series, AAL Dubai, was delivered in March this year.

By Tuhin Roy

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