San Fernando Shipyard Gets A RoPax Ferry Order

IZAR San Fernando Shipyard landed an order for building a RoPax ferry to be operated by Strandfaraskip Landsins, the state-owned shipowning company of the Faroe Islands. The contract is a significant step for the yard in the conventional RoRo and passenger ferry market, as it was known until now for its involvement in the steel and aluminum-built fast ferry design and construction.

The vessel is designed to operate in high wind and rough sea conditions, as well as in not easily accessible ports such as those of Faroe Islands. All the onboard equipment and systems are projected to be operational under as low as -20 °C surrounding temperatures.

Besides 976 passengers, payload capacity is planned to include not only cars and trucks and MAFI trailers but even hazardous cargo in two garage decks - one movable of a car-deck type. Access for passengers and vehicles will be arranged by means of two aft ramps, plus an additional ramp on the starboard side.

The vessel will be fitted with two electrically powerdriven bow thrusters, an anti-heeling system able to counteract the forces of two trailers simultaneously running in the same side and a pair of retractable stabilizers reducing the vessel rolling by 90 percent.

A propulsion plant, with four diesel MAN / B&W 7L 32/40 engines, coupled in pairs to double input reduction gears driving shaftlines with variable pitch propellers, will be also manufactured by IZAR Propulsion and Energy Division.

With Onboard power will be supplied by two tail generators, four generating sets driven by diesel engines and an emergency generator, the vessel will be supplied with a fully automated, 24-hour "unattended engine room," every operational parameter being monitored and controlled from the bridge control board.

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Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 6, Aug 2002

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