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Baltic Sea Vessels Rapidly Getting Cleaner Shipowners Finnlines has ordered three hybrid Ro-Ro vessels from the Jinling Shipyard Baltic Sea vessels rapidly in China. getting cleaner Shipping companies operating in Finland’s sea areas have rapidly reacted to requirements for cleaner shipping. In the coming years, dozens of highly advanced cargo and passenger vessels will be completed for the Baltic Sea. ne good example is m/s Aurora Botnia. Its construction will employ about 800 people This ropax vessel commissioned by for a year. The project is worth approximately EUR Wasaline will be one of the most envi- 120 million and the vessel is being built at RMC’s ronmentally friendly vessels in its class. Rauma Shipyard. The vessel’s four main engines will be Aurora Botnia will be the first passenger-car ferry Osupplied by Wärtsilä and will be able to run on both in the world that is qualified to carry Clean Design liquefied natural gas (LNG) and biogas. The vessel will notation. This is due to its hybrid system and electric use biogas produced in Vaasa from recycled materials, azimuth thruster system, which is “quite unusual” and also electrical shore power whilst in port. in passenger-car ferries. This new build was commissioned by Kvarken “RMC wants to provide its clients with cutting- Link, which is owned by the City of Vaasa and the edge end-to-end solutions that harness the latest City of Umeå. It is scheduled for completion in technology. To this end, we have launched R&D spring 2021. The vessel has a passenger capacity of collaboration with Aalto University,” says Jyrki 800 people and a cargo capacity of 1,500 lane me- Heinimaa, President & CEO of Rauma Marine tres for trucks. Constructions. 46 N_46-48.indd 46 21.12.2020 9.22 Viking Line trusts in clean gas mentally friendly and energy-efficient. It will use a Viking Line’s new LNG ferry, Viking Glory, is cur- dual-fuel solution with the option to use liquefied rently being built in Xiamen, China. The vessel will natural gas (LNG) as the second fuel. The ferry will start sailing between Turku, Åland and Stockholm be delivered to Tallink in early 2022. in 2021. It will be equipped with many technical in- The Deltamarin design agency will supply the basic novations to reduce emissions and climate impacts. design and production plan for the ship’s hull, ma- Thanks to advanced, innovative technological so- chinery and electrical systems. The agreement made lutions, Viking Glory will be one of the world’s most with RMC is worth about EUR 7.5 million and the climate-smart passenger ships. It is expected to use work is estimated to take 16–18 months. Deltamarin up to 10% less fuel than Viking Line’s smaller vessel will handle design work online through its Finnish Viking Grace, which was previously (2013) honored and Polish offices. with the distinction of being the world’s most envi- ronmentally-friendly passenger ship. Five new ships for Finnlines Viking Glory will use recovered heat from its en- The shipping company Finnlines’ ongoing half-billion gines to both heat the vessel and generate clean elec- euro investment programme includes three green tricity. Viking Line will also become the first shipping hybrid ro-ro vessels as well as two eco-friendly Su- company in the world to use steam turbines manu- perstar ro-pax ships. The ro-ro vessels are expected factured by the Swedish company Climeon in the to be delivered during 2021–2022 and the Superstar recovery of waste heat from gases produced during ro-pax vessels are set to start in traffic in 2023. the combustion process. “Finnlines has invested considerably in energy Viking Glory will be able to carry 2,800 passengers efficiency and green technologies during the past with a crew of a couple of hundred people. It will be years. Our significant EUR 500 million investment 222.6 metres in length with a gross tonnage of 63,800 programme will further increase Finnlines’ energy tons. The ferry will have an ice class of 1A Super and efficiency and emission reduction as well as it will a cargo capacity of 1,500 lane metres. provide perfect tools to respond future customer Viking Glory’s sister ship – Viking Grace, which needs,” says Finnlines’ CFO Tom Pippingsköld. entered service in January 2013 – is the world’s first The hybrid ro-ro’s will be 238 metres long with a LNG passenger-car ferry. Viking Grace has already ro-ro cargo capacity of some 5,800 lane metres. The been bunkered a few thousand times in the Port of weather deck will have a container capacity of about Stockholm. 520 twenty-foot equivalent units. The vessels will be able to flexibly handle a variety of ro-ro cargos, e.g. Tallink Mystar – built and designed in Finland some 5,800 m2 can be dedicated for efficient carriage TallinkSilja has commissioned a shuttle from RMC’s of cars by hoistable car decks. The lower hold and main Rauma Shipyard to serve the Helsinki-Tallinn route. deck have been designed for the efficient loading and This new build will be Rauma Shipyard’s second larg- unloading of paper sto-ro cargo in addition to ro-ro est ship to date, with a passenger capacity of 2,800 units. One ship will be able to transport a maximum people and a vehicle capacity of 1,900 lane metres. of 17,400 tons of cargo. Thanks to cutting-edge technology and innova- “The ro-ro vessels’ will be fitted with hybrid power tions, the Tallink Mystar ferry will be both environ- system. The deliveries will include approximately › UPM is charter- ing seven new LNG vessels from the Dutch Spliethoff Group. 47 N_46-48.indd 47 21.12.2020 9.22 Shipowners 5,000 kWh battery systems that will enable the ves- sels to operate emission-free while in port. In addi- tion to lithium-ion batteries we will also be supplying Viking Glory will our vessels with the other parts of a DC-Link inte- use recovered heat from its gration package. These consists of shaft generators, engines to both a DC-switchboard and converters, energy and power heat the vessel management systems and an integrated automation and generate clean electricity. system,” says Finnlines’ Mikael Lindholm, Head of the Newbuilding Department. The vessels will be equipped with two-stroke en- ergy efficient engines. “Thanks to all the smart tech- service in 2021–2022. nology these new vessels will be among the most “The use of LNG will reduce carbon-dioxide emis- environmentally friendly ships of their type in the sions by a fourth compared to other maritime fuels. Baltic Sea,” he adds. Nitrogen oxides will fall by 85 per cent and sulphur Two of the ordered three vessels are now under oxides to almost zero. Particulate emissions will also construction as the first vessel had its steel cutting be lowered to around zero,” says Rikala, assessing the in early summer and the second vessel in autumn. impact of the sustainable fuel solutions. The new hybrid ro-ro vessels will be named Finneco “The Port of Rauma in Finland remains by far the I, Finneco II and Finneco III in honour of the green largest gateway for UPM’s exports. Next is the Port Superstar ropax vessels run on innovations. of HaminaKotka, with Pietarsaari coming in third,” traditional fuels Finnlines Superstar ro-pax vessels are especially says Rikala, describing the arrangements at the head and use scrub- bers and lithium designed for the company’s Finland-Sweden traffic. of UPM’s logistics chain. batteries. The vessels will serve the Naantali-Kapellskär route with a passenger capacity of 1,100 people and a Neste to replace two aframax tankers cargo capacity of 5,100 lane metres. The air lubrica- The energy company Neste Oyj has ordered two tion system located beneath the keel creates a field aframax vessels from South Korea as new builds. of air bubbles between the vessel bottom and water However, the purchase of the vessels for approxi- to reduce friction, that is, the hull’s hydrodynamic mately 140 million dollars does not signal that Neste resistance. This solution reduces fuel consumption intends to return to the tanker business. According and cuts emissions. Automooring at berth will ensure to Ilkka Iittiläinen (Vice President, Logistics), faster mooring. This timesaving gives lower average these are replacement investments for the aging m/t speed at sea. Mastera and m/t Stena Arctica. “Superstar ro-pax vessels will be fitted with shore Neste’s new aframax tankers are currently being connection and lithium-ion batteries. The batteries built by the South Korean shipyard HHI (Hyundai will be charged during port stay and their energy is Heavy Industries). They will be 250 metres long with used at sea instead of that from generators. Emissions an ice class of 1A and a deadweight tonnage of 112,000 will be reduced respectively. The shore connection will tons. Once completed in 2021, they will handle Fin- also make port calls practically emission-free,” says land’s crude old deliveries from Primorsky Krai and Mikael Lindholm. Ust-Luga to Neste’s refineries. “These new vessels will modernize our fleet fur- As is the fashion, Neste has also considered a va- ther and thereby reduce the environmental impact riety of fuels to power its new ships. According to Iit- and emissions,” Tom Pippingsköld adds. tiläinen, the new aframax’s engines can be converted to run on LNG if the situation demands. UPM’s logistics slot into place “When considering engine and fuel alternatives, Forestry company UPM is streamlining its logistics we focused on energy efficiency, while taking into chain and time chartering seven new LNG vessels account the fact that tankers often operate on short from the Dutch Spliethoff Group.
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