Container Vessels - Cosco Guangzhou

Container Vessels - Cosco Guangzhou

The vessel COSCO Guangzhou is one of the largest container vessels of the world. The ship is in the top 10 ships and definitely you will be amazed buy the large measurements and beautiful design of this vessel. The container ship COSCO Guangzhou was built in 2006 in the COSCO ship-yard. The vessel has 3 sisterships – COSCO Yantain, COSCO Hellas, COSCO Ningbo and COSCO Beijing. The four ships are property of the large container and logistics company COSCO Shipmanagement. We already wrote some words about one of the sisterships of COSCO Guangzhou and more exactly - COSCO Yantain. The vessel COSCO Guangzhou has a length of 350 meters and a beam of 43 meters. COSCO Guangzhou has a capacity for 9,500 TEUs, and the calculated deadweight is 107,000 metric tons. The vessel is very large and very beautiful and also designed with modern technology and some innovations are introduced into this vessel.

The modern way of stowing containers can be first seen on board of COSCO Guangzhou. Also the propulsion COSCO Guangzhou portsystem is very strong and supported by modern shape and cover of the steel is increasing the power, while decreasing the water resistant. The ship is very beautiful and very good looking.

Let’s give more certain fact about COSCO Guangzhou, because only praises will not give you any information about this container vessel. The vessel was built in 2006 by the builder HHI. This is very good shipbuilder and the product they realized is almost perfect. The vessel COSCO Guangzhou is sailing under the flag of Greece. The IMO number of the vessel is 9305570 and the MMSI is 240475000. The call sign of COSCO Guangzhou is SYIE (Sigma Yankee India Echo). The vessel COSCO Guangzhou has a main engine Mitsubishi, which is very strong, low revolution and gives maximum power of 52,650 hp at 95 rpm. The vessel is very high strong and is part of the top vessels of the world. The engine room is fully equipped with indicators for the whole engine, and auxiliary diesel generators. This gives to the engine offices easy way to do their daily job and produce more accurate work of the whole engine system. This is giving pretty good power to the hull to realize the maximum speed of the vessel, which is 24.5 knots. The hull construction and hull design is also increasing the speed. While building the vessel, the designer had decided to use some innovated cover of the steel, which reduces the water resistance and also has longer life in spite of strong oxygen action of the salt water.

Ship's Facts
Name: Cosco Goangzhou
Type: Container Vessel
Lenght: 350 m
Beam: 43 m
Draft: 11.50 m
Deadweight: 107,000 m.t.
Capacity: 9,500 TEU
Speed: 24.5 kn
Engine: Mitsubishi
Power: 52,650 hp

Container Vessels - Stoyko Peev

Container Vessels - Stoyko Peev

One of container vessels of the national Bulgarian ship-owner Navigation Bulgarian maritime (Navibulgar) is the ships Stoyko Peev. The company is not from the best and highest rated companies, because of the bad ruling of the ships. In spite of everything today's article is motor vessel Stoyko Peev. the ship has an overall length of 148.66 meters and length between perpendiculars is 137.12 meters. the beam of motor vessel Stoyko Peev is 21 meters and the draft of the ship, while fully loaded is 8.45 meters, while the depth of the ship is 10.12 meters. All gthe measurements are moulded and avarage values, because of the difference along the ship. The deadweight of the vessel Stoyko Peev is 11,047 metric tons, while the gross tonnage is 9,549 GT, and the net tonnage is 4,095 NT. The container capacity of the ship is small, nearly 564 TEU, divided to 246 TEU underdeck and 318 TEU overdeck. the vessel is sailing under Bulgarian Flag and ceritified by Bulgarian Maritime Organization. Also the P&I certificate of Stoyko peev was taken in West of England, Luxembourg.

Stoyko Peev has a long history in the company. The ship was built in 1985 in Bulgarian Ship-yard of Varna. The vessel has a Hull BR 100, this is special hull for container ships, certified by IMO. The ship Stoyko Peev is very high qualited while building. The building yard of Varna, Bulgaria is one of the most known and innovative in the world. Because of bad ruling, as the most things in the country the ship-yard was in bankrupcy in 2000. Now the yard is working, but too far away from the old glory. The motor vessel Stoyko Peev has a lot of innovations and very good shape for the years of building. The ship has a two bow thrusters, very important for each container vessels. The bow thrusters has a power of 367 KW each. Also the ship's propulsion system is very high qualited and very good working. But even comperatively good ship for the years 1985 is making too high fuel and luboil consuption, which is about 35% more than the newly built vessels, and if we compare this values with some of the most economy ships, the percentage is jumping to nearly 43%. This was motor vessel Stoyko peev, one of the beautiful Bulgarian ships, property og Navibulgar, and sailing in Mediterranean and Black seas.

Ship's Facts
Name: Stoyko Peev
Type: Container Vessel
Lenght: 148.66 m
Beam: 21.00 m
Draft: 8.45 m
Deadweight: 11,047 m.t.
Capacity: 564 TEU
Ship-owner: Navibulgar
Yard: Varna
Year built: 1985
Speed: 13.5 kn

Container Vessels - NYK Venus

Container Vessels - NYK Venus

NYK Venus is one of the largest ships of NYK Lines, with capacity for 8,600 containers (TEU). The vessel is pretty large and the measurements, which she has are amazing for container vessel from middle class. Of course if you compare this vessel with Emma Maersk or some other vessel from highest class, this will not be something interesting. But in spite of this NYK Venus is large and has a good capacity and the builder designed this ship to be profitable and very useful for the ship-owner. The length of NYK Venus is 338 meters and the width 46 meters. The ship has gross tonnage 97,825 gross tons. And so large vessel will need of large engine, which should have enough power to move this ship with high speed of at least 24 knots, because one container vessel needs of higher speed. The main engine of NYK Venus is MAN B&W 12K98ME, which has approximately 87,000 horsepower. The propulsion system is very strong and improved, to give to the ship a higher speed and the maximum speed of the ship is about 25.2 knots, while the cruising speed is about 24.5 knots.

The vessel NYK Venus was built in 2007 by Hyundai Heavy industries. The ship is well designed and built from high technology. NYK Venus has also three more sister-ships NYK Vega, NYK Vesta and NYK Virgo, which are among the largest container of the world. We already wrote about the ship NYK Vega, and you know much about her. Now is the day of NYK Venus. NYK Venus is designed with newest and most modern structures. The ship has a hull design with special shape and contruction to prevent fuel-oil leakages. Also the electronicaly controlled engine has a lot of indicators to check for proper and good work of the systems. The innovations into the fuel system are many, and all of them are working for decreasing of fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and polution. The ship is sailing on regular routes between the Eastern Asia and Western Europe. Also sometimes visits USA and Canada. NYK Venus is one of the most beautiful container ships built ever. That is why today we paid attention to this ship. Because this is one really interesting container vessel is constructional point of view.

Ship's Facts
Name: NYK Venus
Type: Container Vessel
Lenght: 338.00 m
Beam: 46.00 m
Gross Tonage: 97,825 GT
Capacity: 8,600 TEU
Engine: MAN B&W
Power: 87,000 hp
Ship-owner: NYK Line
Yard: Hyundai H.I.
Year built: 2007
Speed: 25.2 kn