Kawasaki Heavy Industries has signed a contract with Japan Suiso Energy (JSE) to build the world’s largest liquefied hydrogen carrier, a vessel intended to support the future commercial transport of hydrogen.
The ship will have a cargo capacity of about 40,000 cubic metres and will be built at Kawasaki’s Sakaide Works in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan.
JSE is acting as the operator for the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization’s (NEDO) Green Innovation Fund project.
The project aims to demonstrate ship-to-base loading and unloading of liquefied hydrogen and to carry out ocean-going trials by the fiscal year ending March 2031.
These trials are planned to confirm performance, safety, durability, reliability and economic feasibility.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has previous experience in liquefied hydrogen transport. In 2021, the company built the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier, the 1,250-cubic-metre Suiso Frontier.
In 2022, the vessel took part in a pilot demonstration between Japan and Australia, which successfully showed
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