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Complete Kawasaki Heavy Industries the fed project for a portacontainer from 9.000 teu to LNG
Approval in principle of Det Norske Veritas
January 25, 2012
The navalmeccanico group Japanese Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has completed a project for the construction of portacontainer of the cargo ability equipped pairs to 9.000 teu of a fed system of propulsion to which liquified natural gas. The society of classification Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has explained that the project, to which it has given own approval in principle, previews that the fuel LNG is stoccato low-pressure in insulated prismatic reserviors of type B that for the first time are proposed for a large one portacontainer. Draft of various reserviors from the cylindrical tanks in pressure of type C and that - has specified DNV - they at best use the space available thanks to their prismatic form.
The new ship from 9.000 teu will have a length of 308 meters, a width of 48,4 meters, a draught of 14,5 meters and the reserviors for the fuel LNG will have an ability to 7.000 cubic metres.
Recently DNV has developed projects for uses it of the which liquified natural gas for the propulsion of the ships, between which the project Quantum for the field of the portacontainer ( on 13 April 2010).
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