The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (JASNAOE), a public interest incorporated foundation, selected the ONE INNOVATION and ONE INFINITY for the Ship of the Year Award 2023 from the five candidate ships this year, the 34th year of this annual event. These ships are first and second ships of six container ships of the same type capable of loading 24,000TEU containers.
The Ship of the Year award is given to innovative ships constructed in the past year based on technical, artistic, and social considerations. The candidate announcement meeting and the selection meeting for the Ship of the Year Award 2023 were held on May 14.
The Technology Special Award was given to the EXCOOL, a demonstration test ship to transport liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) used under a R&D project of "Carbon dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage." The winners of individual sectors were the AISHIMA (Small passenger ship sector), the KUNIKI 68 (Small cargo ship sector), and the OSHIMA MARU (Fishing ship/research ship sector).
The prize award ceremony, a joint event organized by the JASNAOE, the Japan Institute of Marine Engineering (JIME), and the Japan Institute of Navigation (JIN), the three academic societies in the maritime science sector, took place at the Kaiun Club in Tokyo on July 19.
The ONE INNOVATION and the ONE INFINITY are the first and second newbuildings of a six ship series, each of which are ranked as the world's largest class container ships. These ships were built by a consortium of Japan Marine United Corporation and Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. In consideration of worldwide ship operation, the consortium designed the mega-container ships by making full use of their latest technologies, and satisfied requirements for both fuel saving and environmental conservation and at the same time provided large loading capacity.
CCUS (Carbon dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage) has great potential to realize the carbon neutral society. The CCUS project includes the need for procedures to transport collected CO2 to a storage site, and technology of the LCO2 transport ship is expected to be established as a means of safe and low-cost transport.
The EXCOOL was completed as a demonstration test ship for LCO2 marine transportation.
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