Hamworthy Innovation Extends Inert Gas System Order to 10 Ships

The company has won orders specifying Hamworthy Moss Flue Gas Systems for four 316,000dwt crude oil tankers due delivery between June 2010 and August 2011 to Nanjing Changjiang Oil Transportation Corp (NCOTC). The orders will mean that, since 1997, Hamworthy’s inert gas systems have been included on board 23 tankers delivered to NCOTC. In a separate deal, Hamworthy has secured contracts to supply Moss Mult-Inert™ systems for six 316,000dwt crude oil and product tankers to be delivered by Waigaoqiao Shipyard to Singaporean ship owner Ocean Tankers between June 2010 and October 2011. These ships will feature inert gas systems offering a capacity of 18,750 m3/h each, 100% inert gas blowers, deck water seals, and P/V Breakers. The deliveries will bring the number of inert gas systems delivered by Hamworthy Moss to Ocean Tankers ships to 45. About Hamworthy Hamworthy has become the first non-domestic sewage plant supplier to achieve CCS Type Approval, this comes at a pivotal point in marine environmental legislation as new IMO Marpol Annex IV guidelines come into force. In anticipation of the regulatory enforcement, Hamworthy became one of the first companies to receive type approval in accordance with the IMO MEPC 159 (55) standard for its enhanced ST-C series back in 2008.