{"id":15237,"date":"2026-05-13T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:28:08","slug":"mols-newbuild-lng-carrier-gets-sails-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15237\/","title":{"rendered":"MOL’s newbuild LNG carrier gets sails in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hanwha Ocean announced the installation of the two hard sails in a social media post on Monday.<\/p>\n

Developed by MOL, the system received approval in principle (AIP) through structural and outfitting design by Hanwha Ocean.<\/p>\n

Hanwa Ocean said that the fuel savings for LNG carriers with two sails are expected to be up to 12 percent per voyage, depending on weather and sea conditions.<\/p>\n

The shipbuilder did not provide further details.<\/p>\n

In September 2024, MOL and a unit of Chevron joined forces <\/a>on what they say is the world\u2019s first LNG carrier equipped with wind-assisted ship propulsion systems.<\/p>\n

MOL said the 174,000-cbm carrier is under long-term charter from its unit MOL Encean to Chevron Asia Pacific Shipping, with a scheduled delivery in 2026.<\/p>\n

The two sails, made of fiber-reinforced plastic, will be up to 49 meters high and about 15 meters wide, according to MOL.<\/p>\n

In addition to the robust design of Wind Challenger itself, additional safety measures include a fully enclosed navigation bridge and a lookout station on the vessel\u2019s foredeck to further enhance visibility, MOL said.<\/p>\n

MOL\u2019s large fleet of LNG tankers had 103 vessels<\/a> as of the end of March this year.<\/p>\n

The company expects its LNG carrier fleet to reach 111 vessels by March 2027.<\/p>\n

As of March 31, 2026, MOL\u2019s fleet also included eight FSUs\/FSRUs, three LNG bunkering vessels, one LNG powership, and six ethane carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hanwha Ocean announced the installation of the two hard sails in a social media post on Monday. Developed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[3805,355,354,373,11126],"class_list":{"0":"post-15237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hanwha-ocean","8":"tag-chevron","9":"tag-hanwha","10":"tag-hanwha-group","11":"tag-hanwha-ocean","12":"tag-mol"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}