|
On November 1, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd.(DSIC) in cooperation with China Shipbuilding Trading Co., Ltd.(CSTC) cut steel for the first worldwide methanol powered intelligent VLCC built for China Merchants Energy Shipping Co., Ltd. (CMES).
The ship is the eighth generation VLCC type independently developed by DSIC based on scientific research projects, with overall length of about 333 meters, beam of 60 meters, and capacity of about 2.1 million barrels of crude oil. Adhering to the design concept of “green, environmental protection, intelligence and safety”, the ship adopts methanol dual-fuel main engine and is equipped with main engine EGR, generator SCR denitrification equipment and open-type desulphurization scrubber, which fully meets the latest environmental protection emission standards and improves energy efficiency and economy to the maximum extent. With the application of the latest ship design, the comprehensive performance is more excellent, and equipped with intelligent equipment such as intelligent energy efficiency, intelligent liquid cargo, intelligent operation and maintenance and intelligent ship-based platform, which further improves the ship's operation efficiency and safety.
CMES is an important strategic partner of DSIC, and both sides have maintained close cooperative relationship, achieving fruitful results in projects such as 300,000dwt VLCCs, 110,000dwt tankers, large bulk carriers, LNG carriers, etc., and obtaining a number of innovative technology application projects for the global first VLCC. The steel cutting for the ship fully demonstrates the two central enterprises' firm practice of the “dual-carbon” strategy, which is an active exploration of promoting green and low-carbon transformation, is a model of practicing the national “dual-carbon” strategy, and another major breakthrough in the field of zero-carbon emission, greening and intelligentization of ultra-large ships. It is also another major breakthrough in the field of zero carbon emission, greening and intelligentization of ultra-large ships.
Since the project was undertaken, the Project Team together with Research Institute of DSIC and various production departments have been working together to complete the tasks on time. Each department has been proactive, not waiting, not relying, and rising to the challenge, adopting integrated and comprehensive layout in the design stage, continuously optimizing and improving the efficiency of each link of the design and the overall design management, and firmly grasping the main tasks of the project, to ensure that the ship's starting node is reached ahead of schedule, and to lay a solid foundation for the subsequent construction. |
