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Zhong Tie Bo Hai 1 Hao

Since the beginning of November, Co Ltd, the are designed to serve – three million tonnes allocated to and the first in a series of diesel- a new train ferry line across the Bohai Strait three and a half million tonnes to . electric train delivered from between Yantai and Dalian. The new ferry is owned by a joint venture the Xingang Shipyard in The newbuildings have been designed by between Sinorail (50 per cent), Dalian Tanggou has served a new route Shanghai Merchant & Research Institute, Construction & Investment Co (17.5 per cent), together with the shipyard. Zhong Tie Bo Yantai Power Investment Co (17.5 per cent) and ° ° ° across the° Bohai Strait° between ° ° 95 100 105 110 115 120 125 130 Hai 135 1 Hao is designed to carry freight train Sinorail No 2 Bureau Ltd (15 per cent). In 2004,

Yantai in east and Dalian in l X a wagons, trucks, cars and passengers. It has an the cost of the total project was initially estimated yk I Blagoveshchensk a A B the northeast z. O O overall length of 182.6m, breadth of 24.8m and T A m E G H ZHONG TIE BO HAI 1 HAO Irkutsk E B u r

R N I H N a draft of 5.8m. K I G Y L G Y Builder Tianjin Xingang Shipyard V A Currently, more than 18 million tonnes of O N N Hovsgol N O A L Nuur Kyakhta L I N a Owner/operator Sinorail Bohai Train Ferry Co Ltd. B by Henrik SegercrantzG G u cargo and seven million people travel annually A Hulun h 50° Y G Nur g Hull No SB346 1 (sistership SB346 2) N I n between Dalian and Yantai.The railway system Hyargus Nuur o UU H Length, oa 182.6 m Qiqihar S 45° hong Tie BoA Hai 1 Hao (Sinorail Bohai links the northern end of the Peninsula Har Us A N N U R Buyr D Oz. Length, bp 164.6 m Nuur HENTIY Nuur Khanka Choybalsan No1), the first 22,700gt ropax freight-Harbin and southern tip of the Peninsula and Ulaanbaatar Breadth 24.8 m K e r u l e n train ferry in a planned series of nine Mudanjiangits new six-hour 86.3 nautical mile-long ferry Z Depth, mld, to main dk 9.00 m vessels, was officially delivered in mid-October Vladivostokleg will shorten the original train connection Machinery diesel-electric Jilin from the Tianjin Xingang ShipyardChangchun in Tanggou, between these two cities by some 1,500km, and Main engines 4 x MaK 9M25 engines situated on Bohai Bay, China. Owned and from northern China to the southeastern areas 4 x 3,000kW Ch’ongjin Output 45° Saynshand operated by Yantai-based Sinorail Bohai Train by about 1,000km to 1,600km. Propulsion 2 x ABB Compact Azipods BI The new route was officially approved Propulsion power 2 x 4,088kW O 40° G Shenyang in 1997S E A and O F is an important part of China’s Service speed 18 knots CHINA coastalJ APAN railway corridor intended to help Gross tonnage abt 22,700gt

N Deadweight 9,000 dwt* A rejuvenateWonsa the country’s aging industrial area i H S u G Capacities 50 rail wagons h N LIAODONG PENINSULA in the northeast. The ferries will also ship S A a n g H e L u Baotou Beijing 50 trucks and 25 cars o H products up to the northeast including export u Lüshun Dalian R Tianjin 5 train deck lanes 768m total 40° Bohai products to . Tanggu Sea Yantai 6 truck deck lanes 450m total Q ORDOS In the Bohai Strait project’s first phase, A L I NI S H A N Passengers abt 480 SHANDONG PENINSULA three ferriesTaeg are planned, and by 2008 all of Yinchua Yellow u 35° Crew 57* n these will be operating on the Bohai Strait e Sea Classification CCS H 0Km 100Km g Qingdao crossing. Initially, the railway transportation a n Qinghai H u *unconfirmed Hu Xining capacity is estimated to be 6.5 million tonnes B A Y A N H Lanzhou A R S H 16 I Ferry Technology I December 2006 www.ferrytechnology.com Gyaring A Luoyang Xuzhou 35° Hu N Hongze W e i H e Ngoring Xi’an Hu Gaoyou Hu Hu Huainan Nantong H U A S H A N FT_Dec 06_Text.indd 16 12/12/06 16:59:49 Chao Tai Shanghai 30° Hu Hu D A B A S H A Zhoushan I. N Hangzhou g J i a n g Wuha Shaoxing a n h Yichan n EAST RED C g Chengdu Poyang Donting Hu Hu CHINA 30° BASI N H Nanchang E Chongqing Shangrao Wenzho SEA N Gongga Shan N n G Leshan e Linchuan u D Luzhou h U Changsha C A U S H A N Nanping S ALO ° D G a n 25 H Hengyang Ishigaki A Fuzhou a i t Shima N Taipe Guiyang Iriomote i Shima a n S t r I N G Zhangzhou Tropic e e n L H A N a i w TAIWAN of o Xiamen T Xiaguan n N 25° g Penghu

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500 1000 1500 Kilometres to be about 3.1 billion yuan (approximately second-class cabins are equipped with satellite US$373 million at a 2004 exchange rate) with communication telephones and satellite television. construction costs around 2.4 billion yuan. Zhong Tie Bo Hai 1 Hao employs a diesel- This includes the purchase of three ferries, port electric power plant, and is propelled by two construction and infrastructure, and a vessel ABB Compact Azipod drives. Service speed is traffic safety control system. The cost of each ferry 18 knots with a 25 per cent sea margin The is around 440 million yuan (US$53 million). underflow stern hull has a large centre skeg, and The Bohai ferry officially started operating at forward there are two tunnel thrusters. the beginning of November, when it crossed the The main genset drives are four MaK 9M25 strait from the new train and passenger terminal medium speed diesel engines, each rated at Yangtouwa harbour in Lushun, Dalian, to that at 3,000kW and providing a total output of of Situti Harbour of Yantai. Zhong Tie Bo Hai 1 Hao 12,000kW. The engines are assembled at the made the crossing with 50 rail freight wagons Caterpillar Motoren factory near carrying cargo such as timber and grain. Train access is aft, via a top-hinged door Guangzhou, using component packs supplied Weather conditions in the Bohai Strait are by Caterpillar Motoren’s main plant in Kiel, difficult and often unpredictable. According to , to guarantee identical quality. the Xinhua news agency, between 1997 and The Caterpillar Motoren Guangdong facility 2003 eight major shipping accidents have taken has manufactured, tested and supplied MaK place in the area, often called China’s ’Bermuda M453C medium speed engines for propulsion and Triangle’. In November 1999, the ferry Dashun genset duties since 1996. Guangdong’s operations caught fire, broke up and sank in rough seas were initiated in 1994 by MaK Motoren and the and gale force winds near Yantai while sailing to Guangzhou Diesel Engine factory. Dalian. Only 22 of the 304 passengers survived in Rising regional and international demand for the country’s worst shipping disaster in modern its MaK M25 medium speed engine for propulsion times. Zhong Tie Bo Hai 1 Hao is designed to be and genset drive applications stimulated - able to operate in winds of up to 40 knots. 50 freight wagons can be accommodated based Caterpillar Marine Power Systems to extend Construction work on the series prototype production of the design to China, reducing started in mid-December 2004, and Zhong Tie Bo delivery times and transportation costs. Hai 1 Hao was launched in mid-January this year. ABB’s propulsion package comprises a pair Sea trials took place in August, after which final of 4,088kW Compact Azipod propulsion drives, finishing of the vessel was carried out in Yantai. four 2,880kW main alternators, transformers, Construction of the second vessel started one medium-voltage 6.6kV main switchboard, in July 2005, and its original delivery date was power management system and remote control. set for January 2007, although this has been Alstom Power Foundry supplied the two 3.6m- put back. According to the original schedule, diameter propellers for the Compact Azipod units construction of the third vessel will begin in and other Azipod cast components. ABB also April 2007 with delivery in August 2008. Tianjin delivered a pair of 715kW bow thruster motors. Xingang Shipyard received the order for this The contract for propulsion plant for the ferry in June this year. The ferry’s forward lounge first two vessels was received in May 2004, and On the main deck the vessel can carry for the third vessel this summer. ABB says that a 4,000-tonne freight train with 50 wagons Passenger access is arranged through an high performance, high quality and safety, with accommodated in five lanes, which aggregate a enclosed bridge with a hydraulic raising and low maintenance costs and initial cost, were the total length of some 768m. The main casing is extension mechanism. Shenzhen CIMC – Tianda main reasons for the selection of the Azipods for arranged near amidships. The train access is aft, Airport Support Ltd built the ship’s two passenger the vessels. The system also provides low noise, through a top-hinged stern door. boarding bridges from Sinorail Bohai Train low vibration and improved manoeuvrability, Fifty 20-tonne trucks and 25 cars can be Ferry’s facility and became the first manufacturer the company added. transported on the upper deck, which has of ship-boarding bridges in China. According to Tianjin New Harbor Shipping, six truck lanes and a total lane length of Forward on the weatherdeck and on the three compared with a diesel-mechanical propulsion 450m. Trailers and cars access the upper open upper decks are the passenger and crew facilities, system, diesel-electric propulsion can save 1,500 weatherdeck via a shore-based side ramp on the with the wheelhouse on the uppermost level. The tonnes of fuel and 30 tonnes of lubricating oil starboard side of the vessel. The hydraulically vessel can carry about 480 passengers and 57 a year. With current fuel prices in China being operated ramp is 29m long and 4.5m wide crew members. There are 98 passenger cabins, about 2,400 yuan (US$300) per tonne, and with a maximum slope of 10 per cent. in five different categories: the first-class and the lubricating oil prices about 1,000 yuan (US$125) per tonne, this amounts to savings of about 3.9 million yuan (about US$500,000) each year. China’s second train ferry Zhong Tie Bo Hai 1 Hao is fitted with an The Bohai Strait crossing is the second train ferry service in China, and also the longest. The first Intering-type stabilisation and heeling control transport ferry service operates across the Qiongzhou Straits in south China to Hainan Island, system and a pair of Rolls-Royce Neptune 400 and was inaugurated in January 2003. Designed by MARIC, this train ferry was built at Jiangnan, folding fin stabilisers. Beijing Highlander Digital and has a capacity of 40 freight wagons on four recessed tracks. Alternatively it can carry 50 five- Record Technology – a producer of voyage data tonne lorries and amenities provided for 1,200 passengers and 40 cars, plus 120 cars and truck recorders, speed logs and remote supervision drivers. The vessel has two Wärtsilä 6L32 engines driving Rolls-Royce Aquamaster thrusters. systems, supplied the newbuilding with a range of equipment. FT

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