COSCO SHIPPING names first methanol dual-fuel containership

COSCO SHIPPING has named China’s first 16,000 TEU methanol dual-fuel

containership, M.V. “COSCO SHIPPING YANGPU” at Yangzhou.

The naming ceremony took place on 18 February, which also happened to be

the ninth anniversary of COSCO SHIPPING’s restructuring.

Zhu Bixin, President of COSCO SHIPPING; Sun Yunfei, Executive Vice

President and CFO of COSCO SHIPPING; Pan Guoqiang, Deputy Secretary of the

Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor; and officials from COSCO SHIPPING

Holdings and COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry, attended the ceremony.

Additionally, numerous guests from partner and client companies such as

China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited (CSSC), China Classification

Society, American Bureau of Shipping, and Jiangsu University of Science and

Technology also attended.

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings’ first methanol dual-fuel

containership was built by COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry in

Yangzhou.

This vessel’s 366-metre length, 51-metre moulded beam, and maximum loading

capacity of 16,136 TEUs mark major developments in technical

innovation, green technology, and low-carbon

digital intelligence.

It aims to lend strong assistance to China’s maritime industry’s green

development. COSCO’s M.V. COSCO SHIPPING YANGPU will travel from the Far East to

the West Coast of America in “pure methanol mode” on the

transpacific route of COSCO SHIPPING Line.

This capacity opens up new opportunities for the green

optimisation of global shipping routes.

Recently, COSCO SHIPPING Lines celebrated the inaugural voyage of its WSA5

service to Colombia’s Port of Buenaventura with a series of festivities held at

the SPRB terminal in Buenaventura.