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During the weekend, the 15 000 TEU
Brussels Express sailed into its home port of Hamburg for the first time. It is the first large container ship in the world to have been converted to gas propulsion. In September 2020, when it was still named the
Sajir, the ship went into the Huarun Dadong Dockyard in Shanghai, China. There, all the preparations had already been made to have a floating crane hoist the 1300 t LNG tank into the belly of the ship as well as to carry out other work related to the conversion.
“The fact that a retrofitting of this scale had never been done before meant that we faced numerous challenges – from the planning to the implementation. We have broken new ground with the conversion, and we will now be testing it very precisely in real-world operation,” says Richard von Berlepsch, Managing Director Fleet Management at Hapag-Lloyd. “Fossil LNG is currently the most promising fuel on the path towards zero emissions. The medium-term goal is