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.