MOL inks first transportation service contract for its LNG newbuild

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has taken delivery of LNG Schneeweisschen, the liquefied natural gas tanker ordered by MOL and Itochu Corporation at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea.

The vessel, with a cargo capacity of 180,000 cubic meters of the chilled fuel has been deployed by Uniper Global Commodities, a Uniper company, under the company’s first transportation service contract for several voyages.

The LNG Schneeweisschen features the slow-speed two-stroke engine (X-DF) made by Winterthur Gas & Diesel, which can run on natural gas, MGO and heavy fuel oil.

It also features the methane refrigeration system-full re-liquefaction (MRS-F) by DSME, which works with the X-DF engine to re-liquefy surplus boil-off gas and returning it as LNG to the cargo tank.