🚢Delivery of the world’s largest MOSS-type LNG Transport Vessel PACIFIC BREEZE
Mar. 08, 2018
182,000 m3 capacity LNG transport vessel PACIFIC BREEZE
Tokyo, March 8, 2018 — Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. today delivered the PACIFIC BREEZE (Kawasaki hull no. 1718), a 182,000 m3 capacity liquefied natural gas (LNG) transport vessel for use by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” Line). The vessel is scheduled to be used to transport LNG from the Ichthys LNG Project in Australia, which is operated by INPEX CORPORATION.
This vessel is the world’s largest MOSS-type LNG carrier, with a cargo tank capacity of approximately 182,000 m3, which was developed based on the 177,000 m3-type LNG carrier, previously the largest MOSS-type LNG carrier on offer from Kawasaki. An increase of approximately 5,000 m3 in cargo tank capacity was achieved by making the most of the design features of the 177,000 m3 carrier, and then equipping it with four spherical MOSS-type cargo tanks, of which two in the rear are stretched MOSS-type tanks with a cylinder of 1.6 m in height added to the equatorial ring section of the conventional spherical tank. The vessel is equipped with a DFD electric propulsion system* to offer excellent fuel efficiency across a broad range of speeds.
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