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GREAT SHIPS of 2017

M/V Ireland & M/V Donald M. James

M/V Ireland and the M/V Donald M. James are two new 24 MT/day in the loaded condition. Two wet scrubbers 1,100 KW permanent magnet shaft generator supplies buildings based on the BDelta68 design by Deltamarin from Belco Technologies are installed, one for the main the full sea load. The ships are ? tted with a gravity feed of Finland and optimized for our operation in the U.S. engine and the other for the three generators onboard, cargo discharge system consisting of conveyors and a

Gulf. The stern is optimized for ef? cient water ? ow into allowing the ship to burn 3.5% Sulfur fuel while in ECA 79 meter discharge boom designed by EMS Tech. The the propeller and with the use of a pre-swirl stator. With and in port. The scrubbers are of the inline run dry de- system is capable of discharging aggregates at 4,500 an ef? cient propeller and rudder design by Deltamarin, sign. The water treatment system extracts all PM into a MT/hr. The bottom of the holds are lined with UHMW the ships are expected to achieve a fuel consumption of drycake for disposal ashore while the water is recycled. plastic by Quadrant

Ship Name(s) M/V Ireland & M/V Donald M. James

Ship Type 68,000 dwt bulk carrier

Ship Builder Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry

Ship Owner/Operators Vulica Shipping Company Ltd.

Ship Designer Deltamarin - Finland

Delivery Date October 2017 & December 2017

Classi? cation Lloyd’s Register

Length, o.a. 229 m

Length, b.p. 225 m

Breadth 32.3 m

Tons DWT 67,150 m Depth 20.2 m Draft 12.2 knots Speed 13.5

Fuel Typ IFO 38 3.5 %Sulfur

Main engines MAN B&W G60ME-C9.5

Total installed power 8,600 kW at 80 rpm

Bow Thrusters 1 x Rolls-Royce, 1,750 kW

Stern thruster 1 x Rolls-Royce, 1,000 kW ? xed pitch G Propellers 4-bladed

Generators Himsen

PM shaft generator WE Tech

Engine controls Kongsberg

Radars, Auto Pilot & AIS Beijing Highlander

Depth Sounders: Skipper

Radios Motorola

GPS, GMDSS, Satcom Thrane & Thrane

Mooring equipment Mitsubshi Masada

Fire extinguishing systems Tyco CO2

Heat exchangers APV

Motor starters Schneider

Lifeboat Norsafe

Liferafts Survitec

Coatings PPG - Sigma

BWMS Qingdao Headway - Ocean Guard

LED lighting Glamox

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