Mitsui O.S.K. Lines to order Japan’s first two domestic LNG-fuelled ferries
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and its group company Ferry Sunflower Limited on Wednesday (20 November) announced plans to construct the first two LNG-fuelled ferries in Japan, the Sunflower Kurenai and the Sunflower Murasaki.
MOL plans to order the vessels from Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. in December. Ferry Sunflower will charter the ferries after delivery and launch them on its Osaka-Beppu route from the end of 2022 through the first half of 2023, as replacements for the vessels Sunflower Ivory and Sunflower Cobalt currently in service.
The new vessels' names are derived from the Kurenai Maru and Murasaki Maru, which MOL's corporate forerunner Osaka Shosen Kaisha launched on the Osaka-Beppu route in the 1910s.
These vessels, and others that carried the same names, were called "Queen of the Sea" and the "Queen of the Seto Inland Sea."
Photo credit: Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.
Published: 21 November, 2019
