A Study on Future Multipurpose Vessel for the Northern Baltic Sea

Golam MortujaLAIVA 2025Espoo

Objectives To analyze world seaborne trade and future cargo

flow on Northern Baltic Sea towards 2025

To justify the need for multipurpose vessel in 2025, multipurpose vessel design, fleet trends, forecast the market situation in 2025 and identify the upcoming challenges

To identify the best alternative future machinery concept for multipurpose vessel

Vessel’s concept development

Seaborne Trade on Baltic Sea

• Global seaborne trade: to double by 2030• Ports along Baltic Sea coast: 30% cargo volume

increase by 2030• Finland : 27% increase in international seaborne

traffic

(source: Finnish Transport Agency, Finnish Customs)

2010 2030Source: Baltic Transport Outlook 2030

Finnish Industrial Production

Trends

• Metal and Mining industry: production to double by 2020

• Forest industry : decreasing production volume• Chemical industry: decreasing transport volume• Wind Power Energy : Finland’s target is to increase

renewable energy usage from 28.5% to 38% in 2020 compared to 2005, resulting need of 900 windmills

Source: Geological Survey of Finland

Export and Import Cargo

Flow :Finland

Export

Paper, Paper-board

Stainless Steel

Ores, Concen-

trates

Pulp, Plywood,

Sawn Wood

Renewable Energy

ProductsOil

Products

Metal Products

Machinery Equipments

General Cargo

Import

Timber, Wood Chips Steel

Scrap

Crude Mineral

Ores, Concen-

trates

Coal And Coke

Transport Vehicles

Other Raw

Materials

General Cargo

Oil Products

Multipurpose Vessel (MPV)

• Unique characteristics – crane, cargo hold flexibility• Liquid cargo to dry cargo• Major bulk – iron ore, coal grain• Minor bulk – steel products, fertilizer, construction

material• Speed range between 14 to 17 knots • Average energy efficiency and ship size increases, choice

for larger (15,000 - 20,000 deadweight)

Finnish flagged MPV

Chem & Oil

Container Icebreaker MPV Pass/Car F.

RoPax Ro-Ro Tanker0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

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13650 20871

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59768

212056

329341

DWT

• 14 vessels as multipurpose• Average age 21 years• Max = 36, 26(2) ,17(3) years

Source: Clarkson Research

Future Multipurpose Vessel

• Vessel size ~15,000 Deadweight• Speed 15 to 17 knots (depends on operation)• Ice class 1A Super, double acting option • Multi-folding hatch covers

Future Machinery Concept

• LNG as main fuel • Single screw propulsion with

o 2-stroke Dual Fuel (size limit) oro 4-stroke Dual Fuel engine

• Save over 1.9 MEur annually compare to single screw marine gas oil machinery concept.

• Lowest concept payback time and highest net present value(NPV)

CPP 8 400 kW

7RT-flex50DF

Summary• The outlook for multipurpose vessels is volatile

but the long term prospects are positive• New rules will increase costs• Efficient forecasting model needs to be developed• Single screw LNG Dual Fuel 2-S or 4-S machinery

solution will be the best• Standard multipurpose vessel for Baltic Sea• Large ecosystem (collaboration with different

industry segments)

Thank You !