Taiwanese ship operator orders methanol ready engines for 30+ container vessels

In Switzerland, WinGD will provide XDFM dual-fuel methanol and X-Engine methanol-ready engine designs for over 30 container vessels to be built for a major Taiwanese container ship operator. As well as indicating the competitiveness of WinGD’s methanol concept, the contract highlights the immediate impact of IMO’s Net Zero Framework and GHG Fuel Intensity (GFI) Standard on vessel ordering. 

The owner’s most recent order is for methanol-ready X92 engines for twelve 16,000 TEU vessels. They join existing orders placed earlier in the year for twenty 8,700 TEU container vessels, when the company selected methanol-ready X82 engines for fourteen vessels, with the remainder to deploy X82DF-M methanol-fuelled engines.