Hitachi Zosen Completes Two Power Generating Barges For Philippines

Two power plant barges, NAPORCOR Power Barges 3 and 4, built for the National Power Corporation (NPC) of the Philippines, were completed recently at Hitachi Zosen's Osaka Works and subsequently towed to their destination.

These barges, the same type as the two power barges built for NPC by Hitachi in 1981, will be installed in two locations—one at Iloilo on Panay Island and the other at Zamboanga on Mindanao Island.

Each barge will provide a total of 32 mw of electrical power at maximum from four diesel generators.

Manufactured by Hitachi, Ltd., each of the 8,000-kw generators is driven by an Hitachi/Sulzer 16ZV40 diesel engine with an output of 11,600 bhp. The engines were manufactured at Hitachi's Sakurajima Works.

The barges have an overall length of 213 feet, beam of 100 feet, depth of 23 feet, and full-load draft of 8.86 feet. Displacement at full load is 5,398 metric tons.

Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 25, Jun 1985

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