The naming ceremony for the 65,000-dwt product carrier Lucy was held recently at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. Ulsan Shipyard for Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG) of the U.S.
The vessel was christened by sponsor Mrs. J.J. Klement, wife of the manager of marine transport, Standard Oil of Ohio in the presence of Morris Feder, senior vice president of OSG, J.I. Lee, executive vice president of HHI and several other representatives from both the owner and the shipyard.
Lucy is the first of two identical vessels ordered by OSG in June 1983, and is the 13th vessel to be built by HHI for Overseas Shipholding during the past eight years.
Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., among the largest bulk shipping companies in the world, is engaged exclusively in the ocean transportation of liquid and dry bulk cargoes, both within the U.S.
and worldwide. OSG's operating fleet now totals 69 vessels with the addition of Lucy, amounting to an aggregate tonnage of 6.2-million dwt.
Lucy is powered by a Hyundai- B&W 5L70MCE diesel engine with an mcr of 11,280 bhp at 91 rpm and an ncr of 10,150 bhp at 88 rpm. Her service speed is 13.8 knots. She is 753.7-feet long, 105.6-feet wide and 59.7-feet deep with a scantling draft of 43.6 feet.
The petroleum product carrier M/V Philadelphia Sun (shown above) has left Sun Ship Inc., Chester, Pa., and joined its sister ship, the New York Sun, in the Sun Transport U.S.-flag tanker fleet, a considerable portion of which is assigned to transporting petroleum products to the Delaware Valley region
(NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., marked the start of construction of the Chesapeake Trader—the first in a series of 44,000-dwt petroleum product carriers being: built for American Trading Transportation Company, Inc., of New York. Frank J. Murphy, chairman of the board of American Trading, served
Christening ceremonies were performed recently for the Blue Ridge, one of three 37,500-dwt product carriers being built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) for Union Oil Company of California. (See MR EN, December 15, 1980, page 26.) More than 400 invited guests gathered at the
Sun Transport, Inc. and the Military Sealift Command (MSC) recently signed a contract for MSC's five-year charter of Sun Transport's 34,400-dwt p r o d u ct tanker New York Sun (See December 1, 1980 issue MR /EN, page 28). The contract for MSC's charter of the newly constructed tanker in the
arc, signaling the beginning of construction. John Smith, vice president, yard operations, represented NASSCO in the keel-laying ceremony. The product carriers are a new NASSCO design designated as the Carlsbad Class. They will be 658 feet in length, 100 feet in beam, have a 33-foot draft, and will
is built to American Bureau of Shipping Classification. The Sedota shipyard of Naikai Zosen, an affiliate of Hitachi, completed the 17,985-dwt product carrier Pranedya Dwitya for Scorpa Pranedya Maritime, Inc. She is the second of two ships built at the Sedota yard for transportation of refined
keel-laying ceremony at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, initiated construction of the second of three 37,500-dwt product carriers being built for Union Oil Company of California. E.P. Barnett, vice president, refinery and supply, Union Oil Company, and D.L. Hanley, senior
& Product Tankers and Barges OPA '90 requires the complete replacement of single hulled tank ves- sels to be used in the U.S. petroleum crude and product carrier and related trades in five-year intervals at the end of 2005, 2010 and 2015. The current U.S. flag tanker fleet is comprised of 103 vessels
tankers in Copenhagen." BWSD has built double-hull ships since 1984. The vessels were the CPT54E Series 90,000-cubic-meter product carriers and the BCT70 Series 74,000-dwt bulk/OBO carriers. The Danish firm recently introduced the new generation BCT85 Panamax OBO/product carrier
The 17,703-dwt product carrier Pranedya Pratama, recently delivered to her owner, Sunhi Scorpa, Inc. of Liberia, was constructed at the Setoda Shipyard of Naikai Zosen, an affiliate of Hitachi Zosen. Pranedya Pratama is the first of two product carriers to be constructed at the Setoda Shipyard for
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