Terntank goes emission-free

ANOTHER LEAGUE

MARITIME • TERNTANK IS CONTINUING TO REDUCE SHIPSOURCED EMISSIONS, WITH ITS LATEST TWO NEWBUILDINGS FITTED WITH A RANGE OF CARBON REDUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

SWEDISH TANKER OPERATOR Terntank has added two new 15,000-dwt chemical/product tankers to its fleet that are already making a big difference to the carbon footprint of its operations in northern Europe. The two ships, Tern Island and Tern Fors, were built by China Merchants Jinling at its yard in Yangzhou and are equipped with dual-fuel power plants capable of running on LNG or liquefied biogas (LBG) as well as traditional fuels; moreover, they are also equipped with a battery pack and onshore power connection, allowing them to

TERNTANK’S NEW SHIPS HAVE ALREADY CARRIED

OUT THE WORLD’S FIRST ZERO-EMISSION PORT

OPERATIONS IN GOTHENBURG USING SHORE POWER operate virtually emission-free during port operations when shore power is available.

The new ships, designed by Terntank and Kongsberg Maritime, are also fitted with Kongsberg’s digital solutions that optimise voyage operations by constantly adjusting the vessel’s speed and, through slow steaming, to meet its agreed time of arrival and move directly into port, instead of dropping anchor and waiting to berth. This also ensures compliance with the BIMCO clause on slow steaming and tracks real-time savings.

This digital solution offers enhanced their ‘just-In-time’ management, providing vessel-to-cloud data infrastructure capturing and aggregating quality data in respect of the vessel’s overall operation. The data gathered ranges from engine and piston performance, hull build-up, to even contact with ice. This data is then used to allow efficient and proactive maintenance, leading to a further reduction in emissions.

DO THE RIGHT THING “The delivery of Tern Island and Tern Fors mark our ongoing journey to evolve and learn, in respect of continuously developing sustainable shipping across all range of our operations,” says CEO Claes Möller. “The innovative ship design of Tern Fors and Tern Island unites technical and digital solutions that optimise voyages, achieves a drastic decrease in emissions and most significantly assists our crew onboard in daily operations.

“We are passionate and our philosophy is that it should be easy to do the right thing, especially for our crew which are the core of our business,” Möller adds. “To make this a reality, it takes a lot of hard work behind the scenes and the enhanced insights which the digital solutions provide help us to further achieve this.”

The ships use what Terntank calls its Hybrid Solution®, consisting of a battery pack, shore power connection and a DC-Link System, which not only enables the ships to perform fossil-free port operations but also enables peak shaving to reduce emissions even further. The battery packs also act as reserve to provide an energy reserve for power generation, limiting unnecessary parallel running of generators and provides a blackout prevention function that keeps the electrical network alive.

Terntank has been working with the Port of Gothenburg on the shore power project as part of Gothenburg’s Energy Port Initiative, the first of its kind in the world. When complete, it will enable a reduction in carbon emissions from vessels in the port by 1,800 tonnes per year. Similar projects underway in Gävle and Pori will further reduce emissions from shipping in the Baltic Sea area.

Both new ships will work alongside other Terntank vessels in a pool under the commercial operation of charterer North European Oil Trade (NEOT), a Finland-based fuel supplier, and will work mostly carrying bio products in and around the Baltic. www.terntank.com