HD KSOE contracts GTT to design fuel tanks for LNG-fuelled container ships

French containment system builder GTT has received an order to design cryogenic fuel tanks for 12 LNG-powered container ships.

PHOTO: An illustrative model of the GTT 's membrane containment system. GTT

South Korean shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) has placed the order on behalf of French shipping company CMA CGM.

Under the agreement, HD KSOE’s subsidiaries, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and HD Hyundai Samho (HSHI), will each build six container ships.

Each of these 15,500-TEU vessels will be equipped with a 12,700-cbm capacity LNG fuel tank. Each tank will be fitted with a membrane containment system, which according to GTT is a "a cryogenic liner used to contain liquefied gas at low temperatures during shipping, onshore and offshore storage, at atmospheric pressure.”

The vessels are expected to be delivered between the second quarter of 2027 and the second quarter of 2028.

LNG can curb carbon dioxide emissions by about a quarter compared to conventional bunker fuels. But its methane emissions can be 36 times more potent as a GHG compared to carbon dioxide over a century, according to a World Bank study.

By Tuhin Roy

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