First ‘Green Ship’ prepares to set sail for Germany
The first of two ‘Green-Ships’ for Baltic Sea ferry line TT-Line has been delivered, ready for its voyage to Travemünde in Germany.
Both ships were designed Danish firm OSK-ShipTech and built at the CMI Shipyard in Nanjing, China.
The first, Nils Holgersson, will be the first ferry in the southern Baltic Sea, according to TT-Line, which celebrates its 60th birthday this year, to be dual fuelled with liquefied natural gas. Her sister ship, Peter Pan, has also been launched and is expected to be delivered in October.
The ships, each 230m x 31m, will carry up to 800 passengers and 4,500 lanemetres of freight on four decks across the Baltic sea between Sweden (Trelleborg) and Travemünde.
“Sustainability is the fundamental topic of the future,” said TT-Line managing director Bernhard Termühlen. “We want to take on these challenges and bring together economy and ecology – also and especially in shipping.”
While able to run on LNG, the ships also use diesel and can be considered dual fuelled.
“The combination of the significantly better emissions balance of LNG, more efficient ship operation and a significantly increased capacity for cargo and passengers enables an improvement in the CO2 balance by up to 60%,” says TT-Line.
Other additions
It’s not just the fuel that adds to the environmental cleanliness of the vessels, the company said.
“An energy-efficient air conditioning system ensures minimal energy consumption and the heat recovery system of the engine head saves additional energy,” TT-Line says.
“The optimised hull, including a specially designed bow, and special shaft seals with extensive waste management conserves resources and only environmentally friendly cooling water additives and cleaning agents are used.
“Plastic products are avoided as far as possible. In general the central aspect in the selection of suppliers is the environmental friendliness of the solutions.
