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GREAT SHIPS of 2017

Polaris Highway 7,500-unit pure car/truck carrier

Image: MOL

Polaris Highway is the 7,500-unit pure not only to meet environmental regula- car/truck carrier which was delivered by tion of NOx, SOx, and CO2 but also re-

Main Ship InfoMain Ship Info

Japan Marine United Corporation, the duce environmental pollution extremely fourth vessel that the ship yard built for was delivered last year. The delivery

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K-line). One of of K-line’s Drive Green Highway was

Ship Name Polaris Highway main features of this ship is wide range a milestone in the Drive Green Project liftable deck system. While general car launched in 2014 to use the world’s most

Ship Type Pure Car/Truck carrier carriers set up the deck height as cars and advanced technologies to build a ship

Ship Builder JAPAN MARINE UNITED CORPORATION construction machines, Polaris Highway which provides both environmental pro- can change the height of cargo deck and tection and energy savings. The project

Ship Owner Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K-line) carry rail cars besides them. Also, though was launched with the aim of reducing

Delivery Date March 31, 2017 it does not appear in her overview, PO- CO2 emissions by 25% compared with

LARIS HIGHWAY has a wonderful conventional designs using advanced

Classi? cation NK brain named “K-IMS”, an optimal opera- hull design and energy saving technolo-

Length (OA) 199.99 m tion support system that ? gures out opti- gies. DRIVE GREEN HIGHWAY in- mum routes, engine output and trims by tegrates the world most advanced envi-

Length (BP) 190.8m continuous monitoring of navigational ronmentally friendly and energy saving

Breadth 37.5m state, developed by K-line and Kawasaki technologies, including greenhouse gas

Heavy Industries, Ltd. Furthermore, PO- reduction systems on its deck. The vessel

Tons DWT 20494

LARIS HIGHWAY installed many kind has one of the largest solar energy sys-

Depth 38.23m of energy saving equipment, exhaust gas tems for ships, with more than 900 of So- economizer for generator engines, water lar Frontier’s CIS solar panels installed

Draft 9.925m emulsion fuel for auxiliary boiler, and in- on the vessel’s top deck providing a 150 knots Speed 20.0 verter control for fans in engine room and kW peak of electricity generating capac- cooling sea water pumps also contribute ity. The electricity generated by these so-

Main engines MITSUI-MAN B&W 7S60ME-C8.2 to save fuel consumption. As a sister ves- lar panels is used to power all LED light- sel, Drive Green Highway which aimed ing in the vehicle decks.

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