Finnish shipping company Langh Ship Oy Ab has ordered three new 1,200 TEU container feeder vessels.
The ships will be built in China at the Paxocean shipyard and are expected to start being delivered in August 2024. After the delivery, the newbuildings will be deployed on the company’s European services.
Langh Ship said the design for the container ships was developed by the company itself in collaboration with the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI).
The vessels will be approximately 150 meters long, 27 meters wide and have an 8.75 meters draft.
”In the European market we see a need for this type and size of container feeders,” pointed out Laura Langh-Lagerlöf, managing director of the company.
”By optimising the hull lines we managed to maximise the cargo capacity and at the same time minimise the energy consumption, still keeping a speed of 18 knots if needed,” she added.
The newbuildings will be equipped with a two-stroke, slow-speed main engine for best fuel economy and hybrid scrubbers from Langh Ship’s sister company Langh Tech Oy Ab.
The hybrid scrubber may be operated continuously in closed loop mode without time restrictions. The machinery will have readiness for Langh Tech’s carbon capture system in combination with the scrubber. The main engine can also be operated on biofuel as soon as it will become available on a larger scale.
The main engine as well as the three auxiliary engines meet the stringent IMO Tier III requirements for NOx-emissions, according to a statement, while the vessels will be prepared for shore power connection and a hybrid solution including batteries. In addition to that, Langh Tech will supply the ballast water management system LanghBW Systems.
”It is exciting to get new vessels into our sister company’s fleet as on these vessels it is easy for us to do piloting of various new concepts,” noted Kim Tervonen, product manager at Langh Tech.
Langh Ship’s current fleet consists of ten container and multipurpose vessels. In addition to the newly-contracted newbuildings, the company has three 7,800 DWT multipurpose ships on order at Wuhu shipyard in China.
