COSCO Shipping names China’s first large methanol dual-fuel boxship

COSCO Shipping has named China’s first 16,000 TEU methanol dual-fuel container ship Cosco Shipping Yangpu at Yangzhou.

The naming ceremony took place on February 18, a date which also marked the ninth anniversary of the reorganization of COSCO Shipping.

Zhu Bixin, president of COSCO SHIPPING; Sun Yunfei, executive vice president and CFO of COSCO SHIPPING; Pan Guoqiang, deputy secretary of the Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee and mayor; and officials from COSCO SHIPPING Holdings and COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry, attended the ceremony.

The methanol dual-fuel container ship named this time is the first in a series from COSCO SHIPPING Holdings, constructed by COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry Yangzhou.

The Cosco Shipping Yangpu has an overall length of 366 meters, a molded beam of 51 meters, and a maximum loading capacity of 16,136 TEUs.

It has a large methanol storage tank that will enable it to complete a one-way voyage between the Far East and the West Coast of the United States in “pure methanol mode” after being deployed on