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Top Page > Press Release 2019 > MOL Holds Delivery Ceremony for LNG-fueled Tugboat Ishin - Marking Solid Progress toward Start of New Business -

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MOL Holds Delivery Ceremony for LNG-fueled Tugboat Ishin
- Marking Solid Progress toward Start of New Business -

February 28, 2019

ISHIN NEXTTOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Junichiro Ikeda) today announced that on February 27, the delivery ceremony for the LNG-fueled tugboat the company ordered from Kanagawa Dockyard Co., Ltd. (President: Takehito Ikoma, headquarters: Hyogo-ku, Kobe) was held in Kobe Port. On hand for the event were officials from the Kobe District Transport Bureau, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Port and Urban Project Bureau, Kobe City Government, Port of Harbor Bureau, Osaka Prefectural Government, and many others.

The Ishin, the first LNG-fueled tugboat in western Japan, will be operated by MOL Group company Nihon Tug-Boat Co., Ltd. (President: Tetsuro Nishio, headquarters: Chuo-ku, Kobe). The LNG fuel was supplied by Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. (President: Takehiro Honjo, headquarters: Chuo-ku, Osaka) using a truck-to-ship LNG bunkering procedure (* 1) in Sakai Senboku Port.

Leveraging its high-speed performance, the Ishin will escort large-size freighters during port calling in/out operations. The MOL Group will accumulate know-how on LNG-fueled vessels through the operation of the Ishin.

The Ishin is Japan's first tugboat built to conform to the IGF code (*2). In addition, its excellent environmental performance earned the top rating of four stars from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)'s energy-saving rating program for Japan's coastal ships (*3).

The Ishin is powered by two advanced 6EY26DF dual-fuel commercial marine engines manufactured by Yanmar Co., Ltd. (President: Takehito Yamaoka, headquarters: Kita-ku, Osaka) and features a removable LNG fuel tank mounted on the exposed deck at the stern of the ship. This enhances convenience in bunkering, maintenance, and inspection. The image of the Ishin, designed with extensive use of green motifs and four stars featured on the fuel tank, represents the tug's four-star achievement under the MLIT's energy-saving rating scheme, and conveys MOL's initiatives on reducing environmental impact by LNG fuel.

MOL takes a proactive stance in popularizing the use of LNG fuel (* 5) by promoting the development of LNG fuel supply systems in Japan and overseas (*6), to address today's growing environmental demands among both customers and society at large.


At the ceremony

Mr. Takehito Ikoma, President of Kanagawa Dockyard (right) and Koichi Yashima, Managing Executive Officer of MOL


LNG tank onboard

[Outline of Ishin]

Gross tonnage 247 tons
Length 43.6m
Breadth 9.20m
Draft 3.15m
Speed 16.4 knots +
Main engine Two Yanmar 6EY26DF dual-fuel commercial marine engines

(*1)The procedure to supply LNG fuel from an LNG truck on shore to vessel.

(*2)The IGF Code stands for the International Code of Safety for Ships using Gases or other Low-flashpoint Fuels, aimed at ensuring the safety of LNG-fueled vessels. The code establishes safety requirements for vessels that run on gas and low-flashpoint fuels, and took effect on January 1, 2017.

(*3)The program aims to "visualize" energy savings and the effects of CO2 reduction in the vessel planning and design stages and objectively evaluate ships' energy-saving and CO2 reduction performance to foster the development of coastal ships that offer greater energy saving and CO2 reduction.

(*4)An engine designed to run on both A fuel oil and LNG

(*5)MOL participates in the LNG fuel supply business through long-term charter contracts for LNG bunkering vessels around the world. For details, please refer to the following press releases.

  • February 6, 2018:
    Total and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines sign a long-term charter contract for a pioneer Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunker vessel
  • February 25, 2019
    MOL Signs Deal for Long-term Charter Contract of LNG Bunkering Vessel with Singapore's State Energy Company Pavilion Gas - Supplying LNG Fuel at World's Largest Bunkering Port -

(*6)MOL established the Bunker Business Office to accelerate its initiatives on LNG and other alternative vessel fuels, and is taking an integrated approach to entering the business of supplying LNG and other fuels. For details, please refer to the press release on February 24, 2017:
MOL to Restructure Organization

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