MOL and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Secure AiP for World’s First LCO₂/Methanol Carrier

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto, Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Shin Ueda; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, have acquired Approval in Principle (AiP)(Note1) from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai () for their jointly developed liquefied CO2 (LCO2) / methanol carrier. AiP acquisition

Design approved for world’s first methane oxidation catalyst system

Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), and Yanmar Power Technologies Co. (YPT), have received Approval in Principle for the Methane Oxidation Catalyst System from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK). The system reduces methane slip by placing a methane oxidation catalyst in an LNG fuel engine and oxidizing the methane. This is the first time