Japanese shipping company NYK has taken delivery of a domestically built ammonia-powered engine to be installed in a tugboat, which is set to become the world’s first commercially functioning ammonia-fueled ship.
The engine, developed jointly with ClassNK and IHI Power Systems as part of the Green Innovation Fund Project in the Japanese New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (abbreviated as the NEDO), was delivered to the NYK on February 1.
It will...