MITSUI OSK Lines has acquired approval-in-principle for the design of a large-scale liquefied carbon dioxide carrier from from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK).
In June 2021, MOL launched research and development on the adoption of a large-scale liquefied carbon dioxide carrier in response to a call for proposals by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation to complete the conceptual design.
MOL said the vessel design is one element of NEDO’s “CCUS R&D and Demonstration Related Project/Large-scale CCUS Demonstration Project in Tomakomai/Demonstration Project on carbon dioxide Transportation.”
The large-scale liquefied carbon dioxide carrier is intended as a practical solution to the need for long-distance transport of carbon dioxide on a scale of 1 million tons a year, based on NEDO’s vision to implement CCUS technology.
The vessel will be designed to carry 64,000 cubic metres of liquefied carbon dioxide.
