Exmar collaborates on ballast-free gas tanker

French technology company GTT, UK classification society Lloyd’s Register and Chinese shipyard DSIC set up a joint project last year to develop an LNG tanker that is not equipped with separate ballast tanks but nevertheless fully complies with new IMO regulations around ballast water. This is a medium-sized tanker with a capacity of 30,000 cubic metres that was given the call sign ‘B-FREE LNG carrier’.