Newbuild drive almost as good as LNG

The 74.3m long, 13.4m newbuild has just been ordered at Cassens Werft in Emden by Reederei Norden-Frisia for delivery in summer next year. According to Norden-Frisia chairman Carl-Ulfert Stegmann, it was planned to fit the vessel with a modified waste gas emission processing plant from Kurre Abgastechnik and with a rust particle filter.

Mr Stegmann said the plant would reduce emissions by up to 90% and particle dust by up to 99%. “This means that almost the same emission values will be achieved as with a gas-driven vessel”, he declared.

He added it was also planned to win for the new ship a “Blue Angel Ship Design” quality certificate like that currently held by the company’s Frisia V111, delivered by Sietas in 2012 and the first ship in Germany to hold such a certificate. Otherwise the newbuild will be almost identical in dimensions to the company’s 70.7m Frisia 1V, delivered by Cassens in 2002.

Norden Frisia technical inspector Thomas de Vries told The Motorship plans were to have the double ender’s Voith Schneider propellers in combinator operation, a development which the owners said meant that surplus heat and LED lighting could also be utilised.

Engine configuration, he added, was likely to be four Mitsubishi/AvK Diesel generators and one MAN/LS emergency/port generator. The Cummins (AvK) generators would be driven by Mitsubishi Diesels Type S 6 R2-T2-MPTK and the Leroy Somer generator by a MAN Type D 2866 LXE 20 engine.

No price was revealed for the newbuild but unofficial reports put the cost at around €20m. The new ship, of 325 tonnes and drawing 1.75m, will carry about 1,340 passengers and 60 cars and be ideal for the shallow waters between the German mainland and the offshore island of Norderey.