{"id":10895,"date":"2015-03-16T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2015\/03\/16\/hamburg-lng-barge-ready-to-go\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:03:12","slug":"hamburg-lng-barge-ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/hamburg-lng-barge-ready-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg LNG barge ready to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

The operation of all five of the Hummel\u2019s<\/em> generator sets recently took place as part of class acceptance. The trials of the gas motors powered using low-emission LNG fuel at the Port of Hamburg represented a departure for both Bureau Veritas, the French classification society and the authorities involved.<\/p>\n

The overall LNG Hybrid Barge system was tested and a variety of large load impacts and load spikes were simulated. The overall load transfer of 0 to 7.5 megawatts of power was achieved well below the time of two minutes set by the classification society.<\/p>\n

Hans J G\u00e4tjens, vice president marine central Europe, Bureau Veritas, said that the overall LNG Hybrid Barge system with gas motors is an impressive technical achievement and a milestone for classification.<\/p>\n

Hamburg’s LNG Hybrid Barge<\/a> was launched in Kom\u00e1rno, Slovakia at the beginning of September 2014 and was christened the Hummel<\/em> following successful passage to the port. It works like a floating power plant and, compared to conventional marine diesel with 0.1% sulphur content, emits no sulphur dioxides or soot. Emissions of nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide are also significantly reduced.<\/p>\n

Deployment of the LNG Hybrid Barge at Hamburg should significantly improve the port’s air quality along with that of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Becker Marine Systems\u2019 hybrid-power LNG barge \u2018Hummel\u2019 will serve Hamburg\u2019s cruise ship market from May after successfully completing technical trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10897,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions\/10897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10895"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}