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Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 08/2025

Ammonia-fuelled design unveiled

August 2025 | Redaktion

Container feeder | China Merchants Group subsidiary, Deltamarin, has released details of a study into a 3,500 TEU container feeder design that will use ammonia as fuel. Key aspects of the development work have included issues such as tank capacity and safety systems. These include physical separation requirements for ammonia spaces, safe venting arrangements, physical barriers, drainage systems, water screens, and ammonia release management systems. Deltamarin worked with Lloyd’s Register and the American Bureau of Shipping on hazard identification, hazard and operability studies, and quantitative risk assessments....