Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha : New LNG Carrier Elisa Ardea Delivered to EDF
Published on 12/19/2024 at 00:09,
updated on 12/19/2024 at 00:10
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Dec. 19, 2024
On December 3, the newly built liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Elisa Ardea was officially delivered. The vessel is owned by France LNG Shipping, a joint venture between NYK and Geogas LNG,1 and under a long-term charter contract with EDF LNG Shipping.2 The vessel was built at Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries.
Elisa Ardea will be chartered to the EDF Group long-term (up to 20 years, including extension options) and will be engaged in LNG transportation under the ship management of Gazocean,3 a French ship-management company.
Elisa Ardea is propelled by, dual-fuel slow-speed diesel engines4 manufactured by WinGD and features an advanced Turbo-Brayton refrigeration system developed by Air Liquide, which efficiently utilizes surplus boil-off gas. The 174,000 cubic meter capacity membrane-type tank, designed by GTT, is constructed using high-performance insulating materials that reduce the vaporization rate.
Length overall: approx. 297.2 meters
Breadth: approx. 46.4 meters
Main engine: X-DF diesel engine
Cargo tank capacity: approx. 174,000 cubic meters / membrane type
Shipbuilder: Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
Ship's registry: France
On March 10, 2023, the NYK Group released its medium-term management plan “Sail Green, Drive Transformations 2026 — A Passion for Planetary Wellbeing.” The NYK Group is promoting growth strategies with ESG at the core, based on the Group’s basic philosophy of “Bringing value to life” and a new corporate vision for 2030, which reads, “we go beyond the scope of a comprehensive global logistics enterprise to co-create value required for the future by advancing our core business and growing new ones.”
1 A subsidiary of the Geogas Group. The Geogas Group owns French-flagged LPG carriers and trades more than 7 million tons of LPG annually worldwide.
2 A shipping company that is a subsidiary of EDF and responsible for its LNG transportation.
3 A French ship-management company specializing in LNG jointly owned by NYK and Geogas LNG
4 Two-stroke large-bore slow-speed diesel engines able to operate on marine gas oil or boil off gas stored as liquid at cryogenic temperatures.
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Nippon Yusen KK is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the transportation business. The Company operates in six business segments. The Liner segment is engaged in oceangoing cargo shipping business, transportation agency business, container terminal, port transportation business and tugboat business. The Air Freight segment is engaged in air freight services. Logistics segment is engaged in the warehouse and freight businesses, and the provision of marine, land and air transportation integrated logistics network services. Irregular Specialized Liner segment provides oceangoing cargo shipping and transportation agency services. Real Estate segment leases, manages and sells real estate. The Others segment sells equipment and machinery, and petroleum products, as well as provides information processing services, operates passenger vessel business and others.
