POSCO, an international steel-making business headquartered in Pohang, South Korea states it's low-temperature resistant high manganese steel will certainly be used in building the world's biggest melted natural gas (LNG)-powered mass service provider. The new steel, claimed as a world initially by POSCO, will certainly be made use of for the gas container of the 50,000-ton dual-fuel LNG-powered mass provider to be constructed by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard.

POSCO will begin providing the high manganese steel to Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Korean versatile shipbuilding business, from the 3rd quarter of this year.

The biggest quantity of any one of the LNG-powered mass carriers has been able to carry until now is 7,000 loads, but the new ship will certainly have the ability to lug 50,000 lots of freight, about seven times more than the existing ones. It will have an energy-efficient, environmentally friendly dual-fuel-capable engine that can utilize both bunker C oil as well as LNG. The ship will certainly be completed at the end of following year as well as be used to lug sedimentary rock from Gangwon-do to Gwangyang helps POSCO from 2018.

As POSCO's high manganese steel contains concerning 20% manganese, it can keep LNG at the exceptionally reduced temperature level of -162 ℃. The high manganese steel that will certainly be made use of for the LNG storage tank of the ship transcends to the existing storage tanks made from alloy products such as nickel and aluminium in regards to return toughness, very low-temperature toughness and price.

Considering that the ship will be developed for cruising across the ocean according to the International Code of Safety for Ships utilizing Gases or various other Low-flashpoint Gas (IGF Code), the high manganese steel is anticipated to have a better opportunity at being chosen as a material for incredibly reduced temperatures by the International Maritime Organization once the ship enters solution.

Based upon a close participating partnership with domestic shipbuilders including Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Design, www.qimingcasting.com POSCO will certainly exert to collectively develop the abroad market for high manganese steel.