LNG-powered ConRo delivered for United States-Puerto Rico trade
El Coqui will be operated in Crowley's USA-Puerto Rico service (Photo: VT Halter Marine, Inc)
31. July 2018
| Editorial staff Ship&Offshore
The El Coqui is the first of two Commitment-class sister ships to be deployed in the Jones Act trade and is one of the world’s first ConRo vessels to be fueled by LNG.
In addition to 2,400 twenty-foot containers, the El Coqui and its sister Taino will have capacity to ship nearly 400 cars and larger vehicles on weather-tight RoRo decks. The 219.5m-long vessels, which also have capacity for 300 reefer containers, have a beam of 32.3m and a deadweight of 26,500 tonnes.
VT Halter Marine, a company within the Vision Technologies Systems Inc group, is based in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
