DNV GL classifies the portacontainer larger of the MSC world



DNV GL classifies the ships of class "MSC Oscar", the new units of the company Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that, with a cargo ability pairs to beyond 19.000 teu, largest portacontainer they have entered in exercise all over the world. The society of classification and certification, that it has been born from the fusion of the Danish Det Norske Veritas with the German Germanischer Lloyd and that is leader of the world-wide market, has emphasized that the first new ship of the new series of the MSC has not only established a point of reference concerning dimension of the portacontainer in terms of ability, but is planned also with a series of improvement characteristics of the efficiency, as for example the optimization of the motor system so that the fuel burnup can be controlled automatically in order to hold account is of the navigation speed that of the conditions meteomarine and in a position to operating in optimal way in a range wide of speed to the aim of a greater operating flexibility.

Between the other characteristics, the cargo ability of the ship is optimized with the implementation of the notation of class RSCS (Route Specific Stowage Container) that it is developed by DNV GL with the objective to offer an employment still more efficient of the cargo ability, with a greater flexibility for the container loaded presents on detailed lists on board broken. "the MSC decision to construct to MSC Oscar and its next new constructions second norms DNV GL - it has emphasized the director Global Ship Type of the classification society, Jan-Olaf Probst - reflects a clear attention to the quality, the maximum efficiency and the knowledge of the necessity of a more sustainable industry".

"From beyond 40 years - it has declared the president and managing director of the shipowning group MSC, Diego Aponte - family MSC has grown and so also our fleet. Ours partnership with continuous DNV GL to being an important part of our travel. Today we are proud of having greatest container vessel on the seas, the MSC Oscar, that leader strengthens our solid reputation of oceanic carrier. This soon will be placed side by side by binoculars MSC Oliver, constructed under the same rigorous norms of class, marking another milestone in our continuous collaboration with DNV GL".

DNV GL has evidenced that in less than twenty years the cargo ability of the portacontainer more than is tripled and that in the period the length of the larger ships is gone up not for long more than 300 to 400 meters. The MSC Oscar is long 395,4 meters, wide 59 meters and has a -16 draught meters. Initially the ability to the ship had been fixed to 18.000 teu; then, during the phase of construction, it is increased adding ulterior a shooting horizontal over the bridge.

The MSC Oscar is realized by the South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in its ship yard of Geoje and is constructed in single eleven months. Currently MSC has in order others 18 portacontainer gives beyond 19.000 teu. Next one of the series, the MSC Oliver, will be taken in delivery the next April.