Contract for design work on LNG-powered ferry

Prior to the signing, OSK-ShipTech had been assigned by Gotlandsbolaget to prepare contract designs and specifications. Now working for GSI, it said it would head the basic and detailed design process, primarily for exterior/interior designs, safety and environmental arrangements as well as general project coordination.
OSK-ShipTech said the 200m-long ferry would have a deadweight capacity of approximately 4,800 tonnes, room for about 1,650 passengers and 1,750 trailer lane metres. Despite having a displacement 1,200 tonnes greater than that of Gotlandsbolaget’s two existing RoPax vessels –Visby and Gotland, delivered in 2003 and also built by GSI – it will consume significantly less fuel in addition to emitting much lower amounts of CO2, NOx and SOx, according to the design team involved  in the project.
“We've experienced excellent cooperation between OSK-ShipTech, the owners, GSI and the test tank MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands) with lots of in-house CFD optimisation, tank testing and retesting," remarked Kristian Carøe Lind, the head of OSK-ShipTech’s Aarhus headquarters. "Bearing in mind the given constraints of the project, I think we've pinched every possible saving out of the hull lines.”