No. 303 Feb. - Mar. 2004 IHI MU delivers large container carrier to NYK

IHI Marine United Inc. (IHI MU) has delivered the NYK Depth, mld,: 23.90m Argus, a large container carrier with a container carrying Draught, mld.: 14.035m capacity of 6,492TEU, to Glorious River Line S.A. at the Gross tonnage: 75,484t Kure Shipyard. This ship is the sixth of seven container Deadweight tonnage: 81,171t carriers completed for NYK. The NYK Argus is the Main engine: DU-Sulzer 12RTA96C diesel x 1 unit OverPanamax type put in service between Europe and MCR: 61,350kW x 97.7rpm the Far East. Complement: 30 Principal particulars Speed, service: approx. 25.0kt Length (o.a.): 284.00m Classification: NK Breadth, mld.: 40.00m Completion: Feb. 4, 2004

For further information please contact: Website: http://www.jsea.or.jp JAPAN SHIP EXPORTERS' ASSOCIATION 15-16, Toranomon 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001 Tel: (03) 3508-9661 Fax: (03) 3508-2058 E-Mail: [email protected] Topics No. 303 Feb. - Mar. Page 2

28,171t IHI MU delivers Future 48 to Nomikos Main engine: DU-Sulzer 6RTA48T IHI Marine United Inc. (IHI MU) standard type bulk carrier in the fam- diesel x 1 unit has completed ASTRA, a 48,000DWT ily tree of Freedom, Fortune, Friend- Service speed: 14.5kt bulk carrier, Future 48 (F-48), for AM ship, Freedom Mk-II, Future-32 and Complement: 25 Nomikos Transworld Maritime at the 32A, and Future-42 types. Classification: NK Yokohama Shipyard. The vessel is the Principal par- first of the series of three vessels or- ticulars (stan- dered by the same Greek owner. dard) of the Fu- The F48 type is the ultimate ture-48 type Handymax bulk carrier capable of L (b.p.) x B x D calling at various ports, where the x d: 181.00m cargo-handling facilities are insuffi- x 32.20m x cient, with a shallow draught and four 16.50m x deck cranes. 10.70m x IHI has built thirteen F-48 vessels DWT/GT: since 1999 as the latest F-series of the 48,821t/

Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. has ers are the side rolling type, and open- completed the 75,785DWT Panamax Sanoyas ing and closing of the hatch covers are bulk carrier, Loch Long (HN: 1216), completes performed by chains and hydraulic for Salivan Shipping S. A. at the Mi- motors. The main engine is the low- zushima Works and Shipyard. The Panamax bulker speed and super long stroke type two- carrier is the 16th 75,500DWT type cycle diesel engine. In combination Panamax bulker developed by Sano- Loch Long with the highly efficient propeller with yas. a large diameter, low fuel consump- The Loch Long has the widest Panama Canal. It has seven cargo tion is achieved. beam permitted to pass through the holds, and the living quarters and the Principal particulars: engine room are L (o.a.) x L (b.p.) x B x D x d: 225.00m located aft. The x 217.00m x 32.26m x 19.30m x cargo holds are 13.994m designed as a DWT/GT: 75,785mt/38,871t typical bulk car- Main engine: MAN B&W 7S50MC-C rier with topside diesel x 1 unit tanks and hop- MCR: 12.200ps per bottom tanks Speed, service: 14.5kt facilitating bulk Cargo capacity: 89,250m3 (grain) cargo handling. Classification: NK The hatch cov- Completion: Jan. 20, 2004

Hakodate builds 19th 32,000DWT x B (mld.) x D (mld.) x d (ext.): 176.85m x 168.00m x 29.40m x class bulker Clipper Harvest 13.50m x 9.560m DWT/GT: 32,038t/19,730t The Hakodate Dock Co., Ltd. de- gaining economic benefits from ship Main engine: Mitsubishi 6UEC52LA livered the 19th ship of the 32,000 operation can be increased. diesel engine DWT type Log/Bulk Carrier Series, Furthermore, Nos. 2, 3 & 4 cargo Output: 6,620 kW (9,000ps) x 130rpm Clipper Harvest (HN: 795) to Colas holds have topside tanks and double Complement: 24 Harvest Ltd. (Clipper group) of the hull structure, and Nos. 1 & 5 cargo Classification: ABS Bahamas on Jan. 9, 2004. holds have The ship was specially designed topside and with an exceptionally shallow draft in lower hopper comparison with other ships with tanks. similar cargo loading capacity. Based Principal par- on this design, the ship is able to call ticulars at many ports and opportunities for L (o.a.) x L (b.p.) Topics No. 303 Feb. - Mar. Page 3 OSY completes USA flag Handymax bulker, Liberty Eagle Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. Containers can (OSY) has completed the 51,800DWT be loaded on the bulk carrier, Liberty Eagle, for Liberty upper deck, Shipping Group. The vessel is regis- hatch covers and tered in the US, satisfying the strict in cargo holds. requirements of the USCG, and is the Dangerous goods third US flag ship of this class built can also be trans- by the company. ported due to the The vessel has six holds and six special facilities hatch covers, and the Nos. 1 and 6 such as CO2 fire cargo holds have double hull construc- extinguisher, tion. As a safety measure for flooding, water-cooling system in cargo holds Container capacity: 675TEU a hold water ingress alarm system is and insulation in the engine room. M/E: KAWASAKI MAN B&W provided. Four deck cranes (30MT x Fuel oil tanks are double hull con- 6S50MC-C diesel x 1 unit 26mR) are installed for increased struction for environmental safety. MCR: 9,480kW x 127.0rpm cargo handling efficiency. Principal particulars Speed, service: 15.30kt Adoption of B-60 reduced freeboard L (o.a.) x B x D x d: 189.99m x 32.26m¡ Classification: ABS increases in deadweight, which is x 16.67m x 12.25m Flag: USA quite unique as a Handymax bulker. DWT/GT: 51,812t/28,762t Delivery: Jan. 27, 2004

Universal Shipbuilding Corpora- is equipped with Ax-Bow, the technol- tion (USC) has a lot of achievements Universal ogy developed by Universal (ex-NKK) of building large bulk carriers. Among 200,000DWT type in 1996, which won The Ship of the the building records of USC till now, Year 2001 Award for the Dunkirk the following 200,000 DWT type bulk bulk carrier Max. Ax-Bow allows 20 to 30% reduc- carrier (Newcastle Max.) is to be one tion in the sea margin compared with of the main products in the future. The ship was designed to be accom- the conventional bow design as intro- Shin Kenryu is the first vessel of this modated in the main loading and un- duced in Sea Japan No. 293. type and was delivered in March 2003. loading ports in the world, as one of Principal Particulars: largest vessels of this type, although L (o.a.) x L (b.p.) x B x D: 299.95m x Universal delivers 200,000DWT type 290.00m x 50.00m x 24.10m To our readers bulk carrier the capacity of the cargo Draft (Design): 16.10m • Please notify us of any change volume is more than 200,000DWT. Draft (Scant.): 17.88m in address by letter or telefax Economic efficiency is one of the Deadweight (Design): 178,963ton together with the old mailing focuses of the design development of Deadweight (Scant.): 203,508ton label to ensure you continue the ship. In order to achieve economic Gross Tonnage: 101,953ton to receive SEA-Japan. efficiency, the ship has a large cargo Service Speed: 14.5knots • We welcome your comments 3 about SEA-Japan. Please ad- hold capacity (=approx. 217,700m ) Main Engine: MES MAN B&W dress all correspondence to and DWT (=approx. 202,500t) at 6S70MC Mark VI the Japan Ship Exporters' As- scantling draft of 17.88m. Output: 16,020kW x 91min-1 sociation (JSEA), or the Ja- Another feature of the ship is the Classification: NK pan Ship Centre in London. shallow design • Address (Tokyo): 15-16, Tora- nomon 1-chome, Minato-ku, draft (=16.10m) Tokyo 105-0001 / Tel: (03) ensuring access 3508-9661 Fax: (03) 3508- to the ports in the 2058 Seto Inland Sea E-mail: [email protected] with large dead- • Address (London): Ground weight Floor, 9 Marshalsea Road, London SE1 1EP, UK / Tel: (=178,000t), +44 (0) 20 7403 1666 / Fax: where many +44 (0) 20 7403 1777 steel mills are lo- E-mail: [email protected] cated. URL: http://www.jsc.org.uk Furthermore, the bulk carrier Topics No. 303 Feb. - Mar. Page 4 MHI completes high efficiency Ro-Ro cargo ships Nippon Express Co., Ltd. and study of suitable deadweight and ve- Ordinary car: 251 units Shosen Mitsui Ferry Co., Ltd. have hicle loading capacity, and the devel- Complement: Crew: 15; Passengers: each put two (2) high-speed RO/RO opment of hull form in order to im- 12 cargo ships into service on the Japa- prove the propulsive performance and Loading Ramp Ways nese domestic route between Tokyo especially save fuel oil consumption. Bow shore ramp way: 1 unit and Hakata. In this new project, the As a result, the new vessels can re- Stern shore ramp way: 1 unit operators will rearrange their fleet duce the duration of the voyage by 4 Hoistable inner ramp way: 2 units from the existing six vessels to four hours and increase 30% vehicle load- Fixed ramp way: 2 units vessels and supply a daily service. ing capacity compared with the pre- Special Equipment The Himawari No.5 (HN: 1096) is vious six (6) vessels. Fin stabilizer: 1 unit the first vessel of this series, and she Principal Particulars Bow thruster: 1 unit was delivered at Shimonoseki Ship- Classification NK, NS* (RGCS) (Ve- Stern thrusters: 2 units yard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, hicles Carrier), MNS* (M0) Main Engine: 9UEC52LSE diesel x 1 Ltd. on 24th September 2003. The Principal Dimensions unit other three sister vessels, Sunflower L (o.a.) x L (b.p.) x b x D x d: 166.90m MR: 15,345kW x 127rpm Hakata, Sunflower Tokyo, and the x 158.00m x 27.00m x 23.27m (at NR: 13,045kW x 120rpm Himawari No. 6 were also delivered upper deck) x 6.60m Electric Generators at MHI Shimonoseki by the end of DWT/GT: 6,202t/10,470t (Japanese) Main diesel generator: 1,200kW x 2 December 2003. Speed, service: 23.0kt units, 900kW x 2 units In the design stage of the new ves- Loading Capacity of Vehicles Emergency diesel generator: 125kW sels, special attention was paid to the Trailer chassis: 160 units x 1 unit

Himawari No. 5 Sunflower Hakata NZC delivers passenger/car ferry domestic owner Naikai Zosen Corporation (NZC) The Ooita is a twin decker with two for smooth vehicle handling. Passen- has delivered the 2,500GT passenger/ engines, two shafts, and two rudders. ger cabins are installed along the first car ferry, Oita (HN: 688), built at the The ship has a smart and light ap- and second promenade deck, and con- Setoda Works to its co-owners, pearance as a high-speed ferry. The sist of first and second class cabins as Uwajima Unyu Co., Ltd. and Corpo- bulbous bow, stern catamaran, and well as drivers’ cabins. Barrier-free ac- ration for Advanced Transport & slender hull form are adopted for cess is fully considered. Technology (CATT). The ferry is now achieving high-speed navigation. Principal particulars: in service between Yahatahama Anti-rolling tanks are also provided L o.a.): L (b.p.) x B x D x d115.00m x (Ehime Pref.) and Usuki (Oita Pref.) for comfortable navigation. The bow 105.00m x 16.00m x 10.60m (at 1st thruster and two Promenade deck) x 4.45m (de- Schilling rudders signed) facilitate berthing DWT/GT: 1,175t/2,453t and unberthing. Car carrying capacity: 35 trucks and A visor, ramp 25 passenger cars door, and separa- Passenger accommodation: 500 per- tion door are pro- sons vided at the bow. Main engines: Daihatsu 6DKM-36 At the stern, a diesel x 2 units ramp door and Speed, service: 20.2kt slope at the port Classification: JG side are provided Industry News in Brief No. 303 Feb. - Mar. Page 5 1st electronic-control UE diesel engine for large PCC Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. UEC Eco-Engine into more market- (MHI) will build its first electronic con- able products, meeting requirements trol diesel engine for a large pure car for environmental regulations, stable carrier (PCC) of Nippon Yusen Kaisha ship operation, and high economy. For (NYK) to be constructed at Toyohashi the purpose, the stratified water in- Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. This latest jection unit, low load FO control sys- model is called the 8UEC60LSII-Eco tem, preventive maintenance system (generally UEC-Eco) and demon- (Doctor Diesel), and SIP system al- strates low emission of NOx, smoke, ready used on 100 vessels were rede- and soot. The particular feature of the signed to be easily applicable to the engine is greatly improved fuel UEC Eco-Engine. economy at partial load. PCC has a The UEC Eco-Engine can reduce car carrying capacity of 6,400 units NOx emission by approximately 15%, and will enter service in June 2005. while maintaining the advantages of UEC-Eco engine The electronic control system is the previous UEC engines. Less adopted for controlling fuel injection, smoke and soot will be emitted, de- Main specifications exhaust valves, the starter, and cyl- creasing the load on the environment Type: 8UEC60LSII-Eco inder lube injection. Accurate and as an eco-friendly engine for the 21st Cylinder bore: 600mm functional control of these principal century. The UEC Eco-Engine has Piston stroke: 2300mm components will contribute to the been developed to cope with the move No. of cylinders: eight overall economy of the engine due to to strengthen exhaust gas regulations Output: 15,540kW optimization of fuel and lube con- to marine diesel engines worldwide. Speed: 104rpm sumption. This system will also im- The Eco affixed to the name stands prove engine operation in the full for Electronic control, Ecology, Easy operated in commercial use. Up until range from the start-up to full load. Control, and Economy. now, the engine has been running Improvements include increased re- MHI started design of an electroni- under good conditions. Therefore the liability of combustion chambers; no cally controlled diesel engine in 1988, engine has highly been evaluated, need for regulating fuel injection tim- and conducted tests on the single cyl- leading to the first order for marine ing due to changes in operation con- inder test engine at the Nagasaki Re- use. ditions; advanced startability of en- search Institute. In October 2003, the Besides the UEC60LSII-Eco, MHI gine; and betterment in very slow 7UEC33LSII diesel engine used for has also completed development of the speed operation. In addition, engine electric power generation at the Kobe UEC33LSII-Eco and UEC50LSII-E abnormality monitoring functions Shipyard was remodeled into the elec- engines, and will continue to apply the have been upgraded to ensure opera- tronic control engine (for all cylinders), electronic control system to all types tional reliability. and verification tests started on the of UEC-LSII and LSE engines. MHI will continue to develop the engine durability, concurrently being

7UEC33LSII die- sel engine used for electric power genera- tion at the Kobe Ship- yard. Verification tests were conducted on the engine durability, con- currently being oper- ated as a commercial use. (Photo at left shows the generator side.) Shipyard Activities No. 303 Feb. - Mar. Page 6

covering ballasting of remaining NZC completes 48,200DWT methanol tanks. carrier, Sabrewing The living quarters have been im- proved greatly. The quarters are sepa- Naikai Zosen Corporation (NZC) and Tobago to North America or Eu- rated from the engine casing to secure has completed the 48,200DWT rope. quietness, and the ceiling height is as methanol carrier, Sabrewing (HN: The Sabrewing is the Panamax tall as 2.2m to provide a wider free 678), for New Glory Shipping S. A. at type and can carry petroleum prod- space. the Setoda Works. The carrier is now ucts and chemical types II and III. The Principal particulars: mainly transporting methanol pro- double hull construction meets re- Length, o.a.: 186.00m duced from natural gas at Trinidad quirements of MARPOL. Length, b.p.: 178.00m 20 cargo tanks are Breadth, mld.: 32.20m provided, each of Depth, mld.: 18.40m, designed which has a hydrau- Draft, mld.: 11.60m lically driven cargo Deadweight: 49,323t pump. Five sepa- Gross tonnage: 29,647t rated ballast tanks Cargo tank capacity: 57,844m3 are built along each Main engine: Hitachi Zosen MAN side of the ship. The B&W 6S50MC-C diesel x 1 unit No. 4 ballast tank of Output, MCR: 9,480kW x 127 min-1 each side is equipped Speed, max. trial: 15.867kt with a ballast pump, Classification: ABS

Clipper Moon 225.00m x 217.00m x 32.26m x 19.30m x 13.994m Owner: Solvang ASA and Bergesen DWT/GT: 75,707mt/38,886t D. Y. ASA Main engine: MAN B&W 7S50MC- Builder: Kawasaki Shipbuilding Cor- C diesel x 1 unit poration Speed, service: 14.5kt Hull No.: 1531 Classification: NK Ship type: LPG carrier Completion: Jan. 15, 2004 L (o.a.) x L (b.p.) x B x D x d: Ship type: Product Tanker 204.915m x 200.45m x 32.20m x L (o.a.) x B x D x d: 182.50m x Yamayuri 32.20m x 19.10m x 11.35m Owner: Japan Railway Construction, DWT/GT: 47,094t/28,517t Transport and Technology and Main engine: MAN B&W 6S50MC (Mark-VI) Agency; Bingo Kyodo Kisen Co., Ltd.; and Naigai Kisen Co., Ltd. Speed, max.: 15.99kt Builder: Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Classification: ABS Completion: Oct. 28, 2003 Ltd. Hull No.: 589 Shinyo Brilliance 20.20m x 12.00m Owner: Shinyo Brilliance Limited DWT/GT: 44,822t/35,012t Builder: Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Cargo tank capacity: 59,388m3 Corp. Main engine: Kawasaki-MAN B&W Hull No.: 1215 5S60MC-C diesel x 1 unit Ship type: Bulk carrier Speed, service: 16.55kt L (o.a.) x L (b.p.) x B x D x d: Ship type: Self-unloading coal car- Classification: DNV rier Completion: Dec. 4, 2003 L (o.a.) x B x D x d: 139.92m x Norca 26.00m x 13.60m x 6.499m DWT/GT: 15,128t/12,588t Owner: Naviera Demayo, S.A. Main engine: 7UEC37LS II x 1 unit Builder: Onomichi Dockyard Co., Speed, service: 13.5kt Ltd. Classification: NK Hull No.: 494 Completion: Dec. 19, 2003

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