COSCO Heavy Industry Shanghai will retrofit four main engines on COSCO Line’s 13,800 TEU Camellia-class and 20,000 TEU Virgo-class vessels to run on methanol, under a contract with MAN Energy Solutions. The ships will be the first in COSCO’s fleet to use methanol. The retrofitting is part of the shipping company’s decarbonization efforts, and the deal includes an option for the methanol retrofitting of an additional nine vessels. The S90-LGIM engines are expected to start retrofit in Q2 2025. More than 300 vessels around the world currently have S90 engines.
