When talk turns to fuel transition in the maritime sector, the conversation usually starts with: ‘yes, change is happening, but the majority of the world fleet continues to operate as it always
When talk turns to fuel transition in the maritime sector, the conversation usually starts with: ‘yes, change is happening, but the majority of the world fleet continues to operate as it always has; with diesel fuel’ and ends with ‘change is being driven by a handful of pioneers: the big companies.’
Enter Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller - Mærsk, one of the biggest and most innovative companies operating ships globally today, and its world’s first large methanol-enabled container vessel dubbed Ane Mærsk, delivered earlier this year from HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HD HHI) in Ulsan, South Korea. Ane Mærsk is Maritime Reporter & Engineering News’‘Great Ship of 2024.’
The vessel is named after Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, the Chair of the A.P. Moller Foundation and A.P. Moller Holding. Ane’s eldest granddaughter served as godmother and christened the vessel.
Ane Mærsk is equipped with a dual-fuel HYUNDAI-MAN B&W 8G95ME-C10.5-LGIM-EGRTC main engine, able to generate 44,187 kW.
Its methanol fuel capacity is 16,000 cu. m. in two tanks beside each other, located forward of the engine room, and it can sail up to 23,000 nautical miles on methanol corresponding to 41,400 km (1 nautical mile = 1,8 km) when fully bunkered. Both
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