“绿色航运”未来可期：Silverstream与KCC公司签署协议

近日，Silverstream Technologies正式宣布，已与Klaveness Combination Carriers（KCC）公司签署了一项协议，将为多达11艘船舶安装Silverstream®空气润滑系统，其中包括3艘CABU II级和8艘CLEANBU级船舶。据悉，该改造项目将于2023年初正式开工，预计需两年时间完成。

Klaveness的组合船是一款独特的船舶，既可作为标准MR或LR1成品油轮，也可作为标准巴拿马型或卡姆萨尔型干散货船进行货物运输。通常他们在去程被用作油轮，返程时则换为干散货船，以此避免贸易不平衡带来的长距离空载航行。

与标准油轮和干散货船相比，这些船只的吨英里碳排放量减少了30-40%，这意味着燃料使用效率的大幅提高。凭借其出色的灵活性，优秀的航行效率以及航行中更少的燃料消耗和碳排放，此组合船不仅是航运脱碳的“得力干将”，还从根本上挑战了航运业固有的运营方式。

作为航运业可持续发展的领导者和具有真正环保意识的创新者，KCC公司拥有着实至名随的全球声誉。我们相信，Silverstream空气润滑系统将进一步巩固KCC公司“绿色航运先驱”的美名。一个简单的例子就能证明KCC公司并非浪得虚名：在一趟从中东/印度和远东到澳大利亚的往返运输中，此组合船通常只需要空载航行1-4天。同样的航程，一艘标准干散货船和一艘油轮的空载航行时间则将在20-30天之间

KCC公司和Silverstream的合作为航运界带来了一种开创性的解决方案，且适用于任何与KCC船只大小相似的标准油轮或散货船。该项目凸显了Silverstream公司承接复杂改装项目的能力，并再一次地力证了Silverstream®空气润滑系统对于航运公司和船东的强大的吸引力。此次合作，进一步增强Silverstream为特定船舶类型提供服务的能力，同时，也将帮助我们更好地向干散货船和油轮这两类船舶推广我们的解决方案。

航运业的脱碳环保进程迫在眉睫，穿越环保风暴并生存下来的企业，才有资格拥抱新时代。使用清洁技术是船东和航运公司能够领先时代潮流的唯一选择。Silverstream期待在不久的将来，能进一步扩展系统的应用范围，以适应更多船舶类型和不同船舶大小的独特需求。

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Silverstream Technologies signs fleet agreement with Klaveness Combination Carriers

Silverstream Technologies has signed an agreement with Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC) to install our air lubrication system, the Silverstream® System, on up to 11 vessels, including three CABU II class and eight CLEANBU class vessels. The retrofit installations will commence in early 2023 and take two years to complete.

Klaveness’ combination carriers are unique vessels that provide the transportation service of both a standard MR or LR1 product tanker and a standard Panamax or Kamsarmax dry bulk vessel. They are employed in trades where standard dry bulk and tanker vessels sail in ballast over long distances due to trade imbalances. Most of the time, these combination carriers combine a tanker cargo in one direction and a dry bulk cargo on the return voyage with minimum ballast in-between.

The vessels reduce carbon emissions per transported tonne-mile by 30-40% relative to standard tanker and dry bulk vessels, which represents a substantial increase in fuel efficiency. By prioritising flexibility, increasing voyage efficiencies, and reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions, combination carriers not only represent a powerful decarbonisation asset for shipping, but they are also fundamentally challenging the way in which the industry operates.

KCC has a strong and well-deserved reputation for being a sustainability leader and a genuinely green-minded innovator, and we are confident that our system will help to boost these credentials even more. To illustrate this point further, in KCC’s combination trades from the Middle East/India and the Far East to Australia, the carriers typically ballast 1-4 days per round-voyage, while the total ballast for a standard dry bulk and a tanker vessel doing the same transportation work would be between 20-30 days.

The collaboration between KCC and Silverstream has resulted in a pioneering solution suitable for any standard tanker and bulk carrier of similar size to KCC’s vessels. The deal highlights Silverstream’s ability to take on complex retrofit projects and underlines the attractiveness of our air lubrication system to a wide range of shipping segments and vessel operations. It also strengthens our ability to be able to serve unique vessel types and positions us perfectly to scale up adoption of our solution in both dry bulk and tanker shipping.

Shipping has precious little time to act on its environmental footprint and proven clean technologies are one of the only ways that owners and operators can get ahead of the curve. We look forward to further scaling our technology across a range of vessel types and fleet sizes in the near future.