K Line takes delivery of LNG dual-fuel car carrier

Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has taken delivery of an LNG dual-fuel car carrier from China Merchants Jinling Shipyard in China.

PHOTO: K Line’s LNG dual-fuel car carrier Nereus Highway. K Line

The car carrier, Nereus Highway, which has a capacity of 7,000 vehicles, can run on both LNG and conventional marine fuels. It is the first LNG dual-fuel vessel that K LINE has ordered from a Chinese shipyard.

The use of LNG as fuel is “expected to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2 ), a greenhouse gas (GHG), by 25% to 30%, emissions of sulfur oxides (SOx ), which cause air pollution, by almost 100%, and emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx ) by approximately 75%,” K Line claims.

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 greenhouse gas (GHG) compared to carbon dioxide over a century, according to a World Bank study.

By Tuhin Roy

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