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Better environmental and energetic performances of the new portacontainer from 10.000 teu of the Seaspan
Reduction of 20% of the fuel consumption and the gaseous emissions
June 21, 2011
The new portacontainer from 10.000 teu ordered in recent days from Seaspan Corporation to the navalmeccanico group Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group will have clearly better environmental and energetic performances regarding the ships than same ability currently in service ( on 9 June 2011). It has emphasized the society of Norwegian classification Det Norske Veritas (DNV), that it will classify the new ships of Seaspan, explaining that the portacontainer ordered from the shipowning company, thanks to progettuali characteristic new, they will introduce an increment of 10% of the cargo ability, while the fuel consumption will be inferior of 20%. In particular, the fuel consumption could be reduced of the 16-27% thanks to the characteristics of the hull optimized for a navigation to the speed of 18-22 knots, incrementabile until 25 knots.
Moreover the form of the hull of the new portacontainer will allow uses it of minimal ballast water amounts and the gaseous emissions of the ship will be inferior of about 20% regarding those of the ships now in exercise.
DNV has specified that the planning of the new portacontainer from 10.000 teu is developed in close collaboration, as well as with Seaspan and Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group, also with the Chinese Marine Design & Research Institute of China (MARIC).
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