After the project between the Japanese group Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and the  classifying society Det Norske Veritas (DNV) for the construction of a container ship with 9,000 TEU capacity, with a propulsion system fed by liquefied natural gas (LNG), reported on the news a few weeks ago, a new project has become public.
It consists on a partnership between the classifying society Bureau Veritas (BV), the shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and the maritime transporter CMA CGM, which developed the basic project for the construction of a container ship of 14,000 TEUs (ULCC), with identical propulsion.
To overcome the difficulties of the limited availability of the liquefied natural gas fuel to feed the engines for the years to come, the engines of this ship can also use, alternatively, the conventional fuel (HFO, Heavy Fuel Oil).
According to Bureau Veritas, “compared to an identical ship with conventional propulsion means, there are additional costs and a loss of space equivalent to 438 TEU, with the engines, tank and other gear to LNG. However, the additional costs and loss of income which take place are more than compensated by the economy of fuel and low environment emissions of this project”.