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Bureau Veritas will classify the converted first portacontainer to the use of the GNL
The work will be realized in 30 days more five days than tests
September 7, 2016
The French Bureau Veritas (BV) will be the first society of classification to classify the converted first portacontainer to the use of which combustible the which liquified natural gas for feeding the system of propulsion of the ship. Draft of the portacontenitori Wes Amelie of the shipowning society German Wessels Reederei that will be subordinate to specific work in the course of the next year.
The ship, that it is constructed in 2011 in Bureau Veritas class and has a cargo ability pairs to 1.036 teu, has a engine MAN 8 L 48/60B that it will be converted in a engine to double feeding. The reservior for storage of the which liquified natural gas, of the ability to about 500 cubic metres, will be placed in the forward part of the portacontainer in order to limit the loss of cargo ability.
The conversion work, that more five days will last 30 days than tests, will be realized in a German ship yard.
The project, that it is supported by the German Ministry of the Transports, is got ahead by Wessels Reederei with Diesel MAN & Turbo, TGE Marine Gas Engineering, SMB Naval Architects & Consultants and Bureau Veritas. Wes Amelie is employed in the Sea of the North and in the Baltic Sea and the ship he is chosen for such conversion as he has 23 twin units, of which 16 structurally identical ones, circumstance that will in future allow systematically to put into effect the work of conversion already realized on Wes Amelie.
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The French Bureau Veritas (BV) will be the first society of classification to classify the converted first portacontainer to the use of which combustible the which liquified natural gas for feeding the system of propulsion of the ship. Draft of the portacontenitori Wes Amelie of the shipowning society German Wessels Reederei that will be subordinate to specific work in the course of the next year.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
