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来源：Offshore Energy 2024-06-05

翻译：国际海事信息网 杨皓然 张运鸿

 

        希腊船东Naftomar Shipping And Trading，韩国造船公司韩华海洋以及法国船级社（BV）针对超大型液氨运输船（VLAC）的设计开发达成合作伙伴关系。

 

        据法国船级社（BV）表示，此次合作将致力于确保现代超大型液氨运输船能够在利用液化石油气和液氨作燃料的同时实现船舶的运营安全。此次合作将以法国船级社（BV）发布的液氨燃料电池技术规则NR 671为基准，确保船舶建造安全。

 

        法国船级社（BV）指出，此规则将聚焦全球船舶安全，尤其包括：液氨燃料供应系统，燃料泄露检测，液氨燃料存贮和液氨燃料加注四个方面。此外，还涵盖危险辨识（HAZID）车间。

 

        法国船级社（BV）技术创新部门总监Vassilios Dimoulas称，“此次同船东和造船厂合作的项目格外重要，致力于让船舶以液氨为燃料的同时实现燃料携带安全化。这些挑战专门针对液氨，但在近几十年液化天然气作燃料的海运贸易中，基于风险的方法和替代设计的理念已证明了其在燃料领域的可行性。但我们必须强调的是，此次液氨燃料带来的挑战与先前液化天然气的非常不同。”。

 

        值得注意的是，2023年11月，希腊Naftomar Shipping and Trading公司向韩国韩华海洋公司订购了4艘可承载93000立方米燃料的超大型液氨运输船（VLAC），要求其在2026年开始交付。当时，韩华海洋公司声称每艘超大型液氨运输船可运输93000立方米的液氨燃料，是“迄今为止世界上同类船舶中最大的”。

 

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New partnership targets VLAC design development

 

Greek shipowner Naftomar Shipping And Trading, South Korean shipbuilding major Hanwha Ocean and classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) have partnered up for the design development of a very large ammonia carrier (VLAC).

 

According to BV, the project will work to help ensure a modern VLAC design can be safely built to operate with both LPG and ammonia as fuel. It will use the current Bureau Veritas rules for ammonia NR 671 as fuel as the basis for helping ensure safety.

 

The focus will be on global safety aspects, specifically including: ammonia fuel supply system, leak detection, ammonia fuel containment and ammonia bunkering, including hazard identification (HAZID) workshops, BV noted.

 

Vassilios Dimoulas, Bureau Veritas’ Technology and Innovation Director said that this is an “important project to work with the owner and shipyard to provide a safe pathway to enable a ship designed to carry ammonia, to run on ammonia as fuel. The challenges are specific to ammonia but the process of using a risk based approach and alternative design concepts are ones proven with our decades of work in the seaborne trade in LNG and LNG as fuel – but, we must emphasize, the challenges of ammonia are very different to those of LNG.”

 

To remind, In November 2023, Naftomar Shipping and Trading confirmed an order at Hanwha Ocean for four 93,000 cbm VLACs for delivery starting in 2026. At the time, Hanwha Ocean claimed that each VLAC would be able to transport 93,000 cubic meters of ammonia, making the vessels the “largest of its kind in the world so far.”

 

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