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Technical drawings of the bulk carrier built for China Navigation Co. by Harland & Wolff. coating system throughout the ves- sel. Specifically, in an attempt to resist mechanical damage and avoid fatigue, the Erradale was designed with: tank top and hopper sides in all holds increased to 25.5mm thick mild steel to cater for heavy grabs; side shell thickness 24mm mild steel in way of mid-body main hold fram- ing; and special attention to the design of cargo hold framing and the connection to hopper and topside structure. Paying special attention to corrosion control, all ballast tanks are coated with 300 microns solvent free epoxy; all cargo holds (except tank top and lower strake of hop- pers) are coated with 250 microns tar epoxy; and all coatings were applied in a controlled environment at H&W.The cargo system comprises nine cargo holds, each fitted with a sophisticated fixed cargo washing unit and a programmable deck wash- ing system, additional electric gen- eration capacity, and a one-man bridge operation, specially designed by the owner and containing an integrated navigation system. The main propulsion system consists of a Hyundai-built MAN B&W low speed diesel, designed to burn low grade bunker fuel up to 700 Cst at a fuel consumption rate of 125g PS/h.

Erradale Equipment List

Main engine Hyundai MAN B&W

Generator engine MAIM Holeby

Emergency diesel Beta Marine

Propeller, intermediate shafts Hyundai Heavy Indus.

Shaft bearings Vickers

Sterntube seal Kobe Steel

Pumps Hamworthy Engineering

Coolers, purifiers, filters Alfa Laval

Electrochlorinator Cathelco

Separator bilge Parmatic Esplen

Boilers Aalborg Ciserv

Hold cleaning guns Consilium Marine

Engine room valves Young & Cunningham

Paint International

Cathodic protection M.G. Duff

Light fittings Kockum Sonics

Monitoring & control Norcontrol

Radio comm. equipment incl. integrated bridge system Raytheon

Rudder castings Weardale Steel

Ruder pintle Centromor

Funnel Marine Skills

Plate, mild steel British Steel

Gantry crane Maskinfabrik ACTA

Sundry davits Crown Overseas

Air conditioning ABB Flakt

Lifeboat, lifeboat davit Vickma

Liferafts Vickm

Firefighting equipment Unitor Ships Service

Anchor & cables Vicinay Cadenas SA

Deck machinery Pusnes

Steering gear Porsgrunn

Lift MacGregor Navire

Ladders, accommodations Welin

Accommodation outfit H&W

Fireproof doors IMAC

Hull stress monitor BMT Cortec 26D Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

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The Norasia Kiel is the second "open top" containership from HDW of Kiel, Germany — re- portedly the second in all : < of Germany, and one of the first in the world — .!!'*« . and it is also what HDW III*"'"" " A iJ^P^^^ deems a successful begin- JBssC^ A^^* ning for a new generation L. ^ y^g Q pany, the ship is based on • ideas it developed in the pWSjSg&J^,...'-^-sSi seventies, but the differ- Hfrjp^^^r- ence between HDW's open top ship and the few comparable ships built so far, says the company, lies in the various material novelties: • The free deck concept, with the deckhouse placed aft: allows container gantry easy access to all holds, and free- fall lifeboats are directly accessible. The yard also managed to keep deckhouse vibrations far below permitted values in spite of its extreme placement. • The HDW lightweight shelter: offers protection from tropical rainstorms and — combined with the deckhouse tower's small area of wind pressure and the windbreaking front hood — reduces wind drag, resulting in four percent less (Continued on page 41)

Howaldtswerke-Deutsche

Werft (HDW)

Norasia Kiel 'Open Top" Containership

Norasia Schiffahrts 794 ft. (242 m) 105.8 ft. (32.24 m) 39.4 ft. (12 m)

I: 36.1ft. (11m) aacity: 2,789 TEU draft): 41,470 gn draft): 35,380 22 knots 16

Yard: Harland & Wolff (H&W)

Ship: Erradale

Owner: China Navigation Co.

Type: Capesize bulk carrier

Length (o.a.): 930 ft. (283.6 m)

Breadth: 145.6 ft. (44.4 m)

Depth: 79 ft. (24.1 m)

Design draft: 54.8 ft. (16.7 m)

Scantling draft: 58 ft. (17.75 m)

DWT: 162,000

Capacity: 181,000-sq.-m.

For more information on Harland & Wolff

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In mid-January, the 162,000-dwt capesize bulk carrier Erradale was named at Belfast's Harland & Wolff (H&W). This is the first time in many years that shipowner China

Navigation Co. (CNC), part of Hong

Kong's John Swire Group, has built in the U.K., the original order being part of an expected series of six such vessels to be delivered to CNC and U.K.-based shipowner Cenargo, each company taking three ships.

However, the Cenargo three and two of the CNC ships were eventu- ally canceled due to the lowering of freight rates in the bulk trade, leav- ing just the one ship on order.

H&W's shipowning arm, Trassey

Shipping, was to take delivery of a second vessel. Both this ship and the CNC vessel were chartered to

Belgium operator CODAM, the CNC ship for one year with various op- tions, and the Trassey ship for seven years. The Erradale is the prototype of H&W's new S162 series of capesize bulk carriers. The ship is of high standard; the quality, safety and potential second-hand price of the vessel attracted CNC to the design.

The main features of the vessel are the 65 percent mild steel content for additional hull strengthening, increased scantlings in tanktop, hop- per sides and transverse bulkheads, strain gauges, computerized main- tenance management and the ad- vanced International Paint epoxy