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Norasia Kiel (Continued from page 38) power consumption. • The engine plant: fitted compactly as far aft as possible. • The one-man bridge: fitted out as a ship's operation center. • Reduced loading and discharge costs, optimum ratio of the number of containers to the propulsive power, optimized arrangement of the main engine with its low fuel requirements, and the ship's very good lines reportedly make the ves- sel one of the most economical of its size in the world.

Usually containerships have four to five layers of containers on the hatch covers. On an open top ship, hatch covers no longer need to be stored on land during loading and discharging and the containers no longer need to be lashed to the deck.

The molded depth was increased and the cell guide frames for the containers were raised to the up- permost layer. Of the 11 container layers, eight are in the hold and three jut out topside.

HDW conducted extensive seakeeping tests with a model in order to counter possible dangers caused by breaking seas in heavy weather. In order to prevent water collecting in the holds during mon- soons and to protect the containers from water, the ship was fitted with lightweight rain shelters, each cov- ering one container bay, laid on the drainpipes on the upper edge of the cell guide frames' bulkheads, which lead the water off to the side of the ship.

Norasia Kiel Equipment List

Main engine Mitsubishi

Auxiliary engine Yanmar

Emergency engine Caterpilla

Propeller Lips

Exhaust gas boiler, Switchboard HDW

Steering gear Porsgrunn

Bowthruster KaMeWa

Winch arrangement, Compressors Hatlapa

Centrifugal pumps, Screw pumps Allweiler

Lifts Schmersal

Separators Westfalia

Plate cooler GEA

Fire fighting equipment Norske

Sewage treatment plant Hamworthy

Evaporating plant Serck Como

Incinerator Vesta (Atlas Danemark)

Shaft generator AEG

Transformer Siemens

Gyrocompass,Steering control and

Autopilot Plath, Atlas Elektronik

Batteries Hoppecke

Anemometer Thies

Speed log Atlas Elektronik

Satnav/GPS JRC

Loran-C Furuno

Radar plant, Echosounder Atlas Elektronik

Direction finder Plath

Fire detection Servoteknik

Automation systems STN

Remote level indicator Hoppe

Anchors, Anchor chains Mester

Cargo hold hatches Kvaerne

Windows Bruno Peter

Freefall boat/rescue boat E. Hatecke

Davits Davit-International

Life rafts Deutsche Schlauchbootfabrik

Accommodation ladders Fassmer

Ventilators Witt & Sohn

Air conditioning plant Noske-Kaeser

Refrigerated provision rooms (prefab) Foster

Iron oxide epoxy shop primer Bufa-Bauerle

Paint for outside & inside hull Hempel's

Paint for ballast tanks and empty cells Hempel's

Paint for freshwater tanks Sigma Coatings

Sacrificial anodes Cetema BV

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In spite of the shelters, HDW did not reduce the lavish pumping plant prescribed for the ship. The first three holds are fitted with hatch covers. They will be used to carry dangerous cargoes. Two layers of containers can be carried lashed onto these hatch covers. The Panamax breadth allows 11 containers in the hold and 13 over deck in the athwartships lattice. The gaps be- tween the 13 containers stowed next to each other topside amount to only 45mm. Consequently there are T- shaped cell guides and, for easier container handling, insertion guides placed alternately high and low.

The longitudinal subdivision of the open top holds were determined in agreement with the owners so that they offer a suitable ratio of 40- ft. to 20-ft. holds. An important con- sideration in the ship's design was the total height of the container stacks. With no hatch covers, the bottom-most containers bear the entire weight of the stack. Between 260 and 270 tons can be placed in the midships area. This means with 11 layers of containers, a weight of up to 24.5 tons per container is ac- ceptable. The ship is powered by a slow-speed, two-stroke diesel,

Mitsubishi 7UEC 85 LSC engine plant driving a fixed-pitch propel- ler. The engine has a nominal out- put of 27,290 kW (37,100 hp) and a low specific fuel consumption of 165 g/kWh (121 h/hp).

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