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The M/T Futura is designed to allow for the future installation of a cargo loading station in the bow, which would make it possible to take crude oil directly from the North

Sea offshore loading stations. It is already equipped with two efficient bow thrusters, one stern thruster and a high lift rudder. A second vessel of the Futura class that was recently launched and due for deliv- ery in January 1993, the Natura, will also be of this type and have a

Dynamic Positioning System fitted.

The ship's cargo area, divided into seven cargo and two slop tanks, is protected by the tanker's double bottom and double side construc- tion, which will help to prevent oil spillage in the event of an accident and reduce tank heating require- ments in very cold waters. The cargo system consists of seven Kvaerner

Eureka CL250N2 electrical deepwell pumps, rated at 41,318 cubic feet per hour at 130 MLC, and driven by frequency-controlled electric motors.

Although this pump system has al- ready been fitted on product tank- ers, the M/T Futura will be the first crude oil tanker to receive the in- stallation. The cargo pump control and monitoring system and the fre- quency converters were delivered by ABB Marine, Helsinki.

Instead of the conventional in- stallation of one slow diesel the ves- sel has two 5,430 kW Wartsila Vasa 6R46 medium speed diesels con- nected by Schelde reduction gears to a single controllable pitch

KaMeWa propeller, driving the ship at a service speed of 14 knots. Fi- nally, the vessel is outfitted with a

Welin accommodation ladder sys- tem, which is stowed alongside the railing.

FUTURA

Equipment List

Main & Auxiliary engines Wartsila

Reduction gears Royal Schelde

Propeller, Thrusters KaMeWa

Steering gear Porsgrunn

Rudder Becker

Alternators, Shaft generator Leroy Somer

Emergency alternator MAN/Stamford

Boiler, Exhaust gas boiler Sunro

Cargo pumps and Ballast pumps Kvaerner-Eureka

Frequency converters ABB Marine

Ballast ejectors Golar

Firefighting equipment Unitor/Autronica/

Kvaerner-Eureka

Lifesaving appliances Viking/Watercraft/Waterman

Deck machinery Pusnes

Hose Crane Hagglund

Compasses Anschutz

Integrated Nav System Selesmar

Autopilot Kockum

Echo sounder Simrad

Doppler speed log Atlas

GPSAoran Northstar

Decca Philip

Radio equipment JRC

Ladder system Welin by a single screw, super long stroke diesel engine from Sulzer/Hyundai, model 10RTA84C, which was spe- cially developed for high-speed con- tainer ship service. The engine is capable of generating 51,500 bhp at 100 rpm, and drives a Hyundai

Heavy Industries fixed-pitch/con- trollable-pitch, eight meter diam- eter propeller. The engine is as- sisted by bow thrusters from Techno

Nakashima, which have outputs of 1,800 kW. The service speed, at 78.3 percent MCR engine output, is 24 knots.

Non-weathertight pontoon type hatch covers with three rows are installed to suit with two longitudi- nal deck girder system, which al- lows five tiers by 13 rows of contain- ers on the hatches.

The vessel can be operated by one man in the wheelhouse, as ship- owner and yard made every accom- modation for a centralized informa- tion/control center layout. To allow one-man operation, the wheelhouse layout is designed so that all infor- mation and operation can be under one navigators's control. The ship is equipped with an Atlas Electronic total navigation system, model

NACOS with 8,600 ARPA and 7,600

AC/TM radar. The satellite naviga- tion system is from Racal Decca, model MNS 2000. Radio equipment was supplied by J.R.C.

The Hanjin Osaka is 289.5 meters long, 32.2 meters wide and has a

HANJIN OSAKA

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The vessel is designed for round- trip, worldwide service and is driven

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