Taylor-Wharton has been selected by Sweden’s Furetank Rederi AB to covert a vessel to operate on LNG fuel to comply with new international environmental rulings promoting the reduction in sulphur emissions.
Taylor-Wharton will provide a complete onboard LNG Fuel System including two 255m3 Type C storage tanks for Furetank’s oil and chemical cargo tanker – the 472 foot Fure West.
The Joint Industries Project “LNG-CONV” will convert the main engine to consume clean burning natural gas.
Furetank reports, “Together with the engine maker MaK in Germany, supplier PON Power in Denmark, Taylor-Wharton which will manufacture the tanks and LNG fuel system in Slovakia and the fact that the work will be carried out in a yard in the north of Europe, makes the project LNG CONV stay true to the wish from the Commission, to use European workmanship.”
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