BV to class fuel conversion

Ship&Offshore | Issue 06/2016

September 2016 | Editor

Wes Amelie | The France-based classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) is to class the first LNG–fuel conversion by a container ship worldwide. The ship, the Wes Amelie , is one of German shipping company Wessels’s fleet of 1,036-TEU container vessels.

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