{"id":26506,"date":"2023-01-12T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=26506"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:14:17","slug":"expensive-lng-command-back-on-two-ferries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/teueres-lng-kommando-zurueck-auf-zwei-faehrschiffen\/","title":{"rendered":"Expensive LNG: Command back on two ferries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">High LNG costs are forcing Norwegian Fjord Lines, based in Egersund, to convert two LNG-powered ferries to run on traditional marine gas oil (MGO). \"The energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to exceptional volatility and significant price increases for LNG - and the price increases have been far higher than for traditional and less sustainable marine energy sources. ... This has led to a dramatic increase in energy costs for Fjord Line's two LNG-fuelled vessels, which is well above a financially sustainable level,\" the company explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">First LNG ferries<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Since last autumn, the two ships, MS Stavangerfjord and MS Bergensfjord, have been sailing more slowly and have therefore had to accept longer sailing times with fewer departures. However, as Fjord Line does not want to operate its routes in this way, it has now been decided to convert the engines of the two ships from single-fuel LNG to dual-fuel LNG\/MGO so that they can switch between LNG and MGO. The ships delivered in 2013 and 2014 were the first ferries in the world to run exclusively on LNG fuel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Conversion<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The conversion of the MS Stavangerfjord will begin this month and is expected to be completed by the end of May 2023. The MS Bergensfjord will be converted from February and is expected to be completed by mid-June 2023. The conversions will be carried out at Fosen Yard in Norway with engines from W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The ferry company is not at all happy about the necessary switch to the use of MGO, even though marine diesel oil has significantly lower sulphur emissions than conventional fuels such as HFO (Heavy Fuel Oil). However, according to the company, the conversion is commercially crucial in order to maintain the customer offering, secure jobs and continue the further development of the ferry operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source: gCaptain<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hohe LNG-Kosten zwingen die norwegische Fjord Lines mit Sitz in Egersund, zwei LNG-betriebene F\u00e4hren umzubauen, um sie mit traditionellem Marine-Diesel\u00f6l (MGO - marine gas oil) zu betreiben. \u201eDie durch die russische Invasion in der Ukraine verursachte Energiekrise hat zu au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlicher Volatilit\u00e4t und erheblichen Preissteigerungen bei LNG gef\u00fchrt \u2013 und die Preissteigerungen waren weitaus h\u00f6her als [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,486,42,48],"tags":[5035,5032,5033,5034,592,5031,158],"class_list":["post-26506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technologie-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-schifffahrt-news","tag-abgasreinigung","tag-dieselkraftstoff","tag-faehre","tag-fjordfaehre","tag-lng","tag-marine-dieseloel","tag-umweltschutz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49913,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506\/revisions\/49913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}