China’s Tianjin Southwest Maritime is to retrofit two of its modern VLGCs with dual-fuel engines capable of running on LPG.
The work on the 85,000-cbm Gas Aquarius (built 2018) and Gas Gemini (built 2017) will be carried out in parallel at the Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry (Guangdong) shipyard beginning next May.
Engine builder MAN Energy Solutions said each of the ship’s MAN B&W 6G60ME-C engines will be converted to dual-fuel MAN B&W 6G60ME-LGIP units.
