Lloyd’s Register awards AiPs for multiple vessel designs
Two South Korean shipping firms received approvals in principles (AiPs) from the classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) for innovative concepts in the maritime sector.
PHOTO: CO2 tanks. Getty Images
LR has awarded an AiP to South Korean shipping giant HD Hyundai Mipo (HMD) for its 20,000-cbm liquid carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier design for achieving an optimised cargo tank arrangement.
The LCO2 carrier design has been jointly developed by LR and HMD, it said. It has been designed to optimise cost efficiency while maintaining a maximum design pressure of 19 bar, LR added.
“The vessel has been designed to support the growing CO₂ value chain with the growing importance of solutions, such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), to the energy transition,” the classification society claimed.
Additionally, LR also awarded two more AiPs to compatriot shipping company Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), for its new 174,000-cbm LNG carrier design and an ammonia-fuelled 9,300 TEU container vessel design.
The first AiP, awarded to the LNG carrier, will ensure that SHI will carry out the design for the vessel and LR will review and advise further development. With global demand growth expectation of LNG between 25-50% by 2030, construction of new generation LNG carriers will be “crucial,” LR remarked.
The second AiP, awarded to the ammonia-fuelled 9,300 TEU container vessel design, will ensure that SHI carries out a new structural layout for the vessel, considering ammonia's properties.
Ammonia as a bunker fuel offers economic and efficiency advantages over other alternative fuels, but its high toxicity and corrosiveness pose significant concerns. SHI will collaborate with Singapore-based shipping giant Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) to carry out the design studies, LR said.
These approvals were awarded at the Gastech Exhibition and Conference 2024 in Houston, US, last week.
By Aparupa Mazumder
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