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new delivery Zhong Tie Bo Hai 1 Hao Since the beginning of November, Ferry Co Ltd, the ships are designed to serve – three million tonnes allocated to Dalian and the first in a series of diesel- a new train ferry line across the Bohai Strait three and a half million tonnes to Yantai. electric train ferries delivered from between Yantai and Dalian. The new ferry is owned by a joint venture the Tianjin Xingang Shipyard in The newbuildings have been designed by between Sinorail (50 per cent), Dalian Tanggou has served a new route Shanghai Merchant Ship & 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 95° 100° 105° 110 115 across120 the° Bohai 125Strait° between130 ° 135° Yantai in east China and Dalian in Hai 1 Hao is designed to carry freight train Sinorail No 2 Bureau Ltd (15 per cent). In 2004, 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 Khabarovsk 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 Hovsgol O N N 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 Shandong 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 Liaoning 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 andO 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 g H S A a n e Beijing L u Baotou 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 Russia. Tanggu Sea Yantai 6 truck deck lanes 450m total Q ORDOS In the Bohai Strait project’s first phase, I L I A N 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 Nanjing 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 S a l w Kunming A Is. I L Liuzhou Kaohsiung U A A Shantou O Red (Y Y u Guangzhou E Oluan Pi J i T Tropic a n A M uan)Gejiu g L M e k P T G Kowloon of Lashio S N Bashi Channel Itbayat I. Nanning N A Hong Kong N G Macao Nang o n g Red (Hong) D O 20° Pingxiang Zhanjiang .) n St aina ia (H Hanoi Haiphong Haix ngzhou Qio Haikou 20° Louang Prabang Aparri G u l f o f Hainan Viga T o n g k i n SOUTH Chiang Mai n Vin PHILIPPINES CHINA Vientian e SEA 100° 105° 110 115 120° 500 1000 Miles 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 Guangdong 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 Germany, 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 Hamburg- 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.