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RoRo Report product containers - the technologically-driven SECU (Stora Enso Cargo Unit) container - measures 45 x 12 x 12 ft. (13.8 x 3.6 x. 3.6 m), with an endloading door.

The SECUs can hold up to 70 tons of cargo, where they will be stowed on the lower hold, main deck and part of the weather deck via a translifter. Benefiting the most from this revolution are transportational outlets, specifically the coordination between Sweden's rail network, North Sea traffic and Europe's inland water-

Main Particulars

Flag Dutch

Classification Bureau Veritas

Length, (o.a.) 602 ft. (183.4 m)

Length, (b.p.) 570 ft. (173.6 m)

Breadth, (molded) 83 ft. (25.2 m)

Displacement 21,667

Lightweight 9,167 tons

DWT 12,500

Speed 18 knots

Cargo capacity 2,500 truck lanes; 136 STORAboxes

Heavy oil 1.578 cu. m

Diesel oil 339 cu. m

Water ballast 7,804 cu. m

Main engines Hanjung WNSD, Sulzer

Main engine type 7 RTA 52 U, 10,920 @ 135-rpm

Auxiliary engines Wartsila

Propellers LIPS Holland

Generators Wartsil ways.

Dutch shipping company, Wagenborg Scheepvaart, the benefactor of these Netherlands-flagged vessels, is chartering the trio to Belgium-based Cobelfret Ferries

N.V. Noteworthy of their single-propeller driven power, the Bureau Veritas classed RoRos are equipped with a low speed crosshead diesel engine (7RTA 52 U) type with an output of 10,920 kW at 135-rpm. The engine plant's foreship location frees up the cargo holds from internals, mainly engine casings, which might block the cargo intake. Holds have been squared off for utmost use of cargo decks. In addition to trans- porting Storaboxes, the vessels can carry trailers, trucks, containers, private cars and general cargo.

Touted as environmentally-friendly, the low fuel con- sumption, high cargo capacity vessels' propulsion machinery will burn low-sulphur heavy oil, while their plants will be equipped with exhaust emission treat-

Anti-heeling system Frank Mohn

Reduction gears Wartsila

Deck machinery Mester, Brohl

Shafting Radomir, Leko

Bearings A. Friedrich Flender

Coatings Wismarer Korrosionsschutz

VHF radio Radio Holland

Radar Kelvin Hughes/Radio Holland

Compass Raytheon, Furuno, Cassens & Plath

GPS Leica/Radio Holland

SATNAV Leica

Pumps Allweiler, Dudek, Bornemann

Heat exchangers Alfa-Laval, Prang

A/C Noske Kaeser

Lifeboats Hatecke

Liferafts Vikin

Davits Schat-Harding

Firefighting system Stohrmann

Ballast control system Siemens, Pleigero

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