NYK orders four LNG dual-fuel car carriers at China yard
The order at China Merchants Jinling Shipyard follows the delivery of NYK’s first LNG-fuelled car carrier in October 2020. The line plans to switch all its newbuilding PCTCs to using LNG as a marine fuel in the next decade
The vessels will be deployed on NYK Line’s Europe-Middle East services. They will the first in the world to use WinGD’s X-DF2.0 iCER main engine, which consumes less gas and reduces greenhouse gas by cutting methane emissions from exhaust gas by approximately 50%