Titan's third LNG bunker barge designed
A new LNG bunker barge is around the corner: Titan LNG has contracted Fearnleys AS, a Norwegian ship broker, to run the tender process for a newbuild. The technical and economic feasibility assessment has been finalised by the remitter's newbuilding team.
The “Titan Hyperion” will be the third barge to be operated by the company. Powered by LNG, the barge will carry 8,000 cbm of LNG to service LNG fuelled ships. The vessel will be operational in 2021. The barge measures 135 m in length by 19 m in width and will be among the larger inland waterway barges trading in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp region (the Netherlands and Belgium).
Customers are asking for more economic LNG bunkering solutions than the seagoing (bunker) ships in use today. On top of performing larger bunker operations, the barge will also serve as the mother ship to fill the Flex Fuelers.
The name “Hyperion” is derived from Greek Mythology, as he was one of the Titans. They were the offspring of Uranus (sky) and Gaia (earth). (fd)