Fabrication efforts have been started on the world’s first-ever container vessel methanol dual-fuel retrofit for Maersk at the Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard. On March 8, the first steel was cut out of the prefabricated blocks to convert the 14,000-TEU Maersk Halifax into dual-fuel methanol propulsion during a ceremony at a shipyard in China.
Representatives of Maersk and the classification society ABS witnessed the steel-cutting event, guided by Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard’s CEO Xia Songkang, which marked...