- milestone order for the world’s largest methanol dual-fuel engine
- Hyundai Engine & Machinery Division, HHI-EMD, will build the engines
- MAN Energy Solutions states that the new engines will be capable of burning bio-methanol as well as e-methanol
- the ME-LGIM dual-fuel engine was developed for operation on methanol, as well as conventional fuel
A.P. Møller-Mærsk specifies the world’s largest, dual-fuel, methanol engine, further empowering methanol as marine fuel within the large-container-vessel segment says a press release published on Man ES.
Largest methanol dual-fuel engine
Hyundai’s Ship-Building Division, HHI-SBD, has ordered 8 × MAN B&W 8G95ME-LGIM (-Liquid Gas Injection Methanol) engines in connection with the building of 8 × 16,000-TEU container ships for A.P. Møller – Maersk, the global integrator of container logistics.
Bio-methanol/e-methanol
Hyundai Engine & Machinery Division, HHI-EMD, will build the engines. The order contains an option for a further four engines with the first of the confirmed vessels due to enter service in Q1, 2024. MAN Energy Solutions states that the new engines will be capable of burning bio-methanol as well as e-methanol
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Source: Man-ES
