German NSB announces the success of the project of increase of 20% of the ability to portacontainer a Panamax



The shipowning society German Reederei NSB has announced the success of own project of consisting widening of the cargo ability to portacontainer the Panamax that is got ahead with the society of classification and certification DNV GL. The project is developed on the base of the conviction of the increasing difficulty to maintain the competitiveness of portacontainer the Panamax, that is those ships of dimensions such from being able high to journey in the channel of Panama hat, via of water whose closed currently 32,25 meters allow the passage of wide ships until a maximum but that it is in phase of widening in order to afford the full hand transit container of greater dimensions.

The current locks of the Central American channel can be crossed from portacontenitori with a cargo ability until a maximum of about 5.000 teu, while from the next year they will be able to journey portacontainer post-Panamax of wide abilities until about 13.000 teu and until 49 meters, long until 366 meters and with the maximum draught of -15 meters.

The project - it has emphasized NSB - allows to more increase of 20% the cargo ability of portacontainer a Panamax and to obtain a Energy Efficienty Design Index (EEDI), the series of technical norms for the construction of new ships that are adopted in 2011 from the International Maritime Organization (IMO), pairs to that of a ship of new construction. This - it has evidenced the German society - does so as that the ship can transport a greater cargo volume and has a greater stability and, meanwhile, the operating costs remains unchanged. Moreover NSB has specified that to buy a portacontainer second hand and to subject it to the work of increase of the ability it costs altogether less than to order a new ship.

The MSC Geneva is before three portacontainer of Reederei NSB to being is subordinate to the participation of widening of the cargo ability. Previously the ship, of 63.505 gross capacities in tons, was long 274,97 meters, wide 32,2 meters and had an ability pairs to 4.870 teu. After the work carried out in the Chinese ship yard Huarun Dadong Dockyard Co. (HRDD) of Shanghai, that the same participation will operate on ships Buxhai and MSC Carouge, the ability to the portacontenitori is gone up to beyond 6.300 teu.

The participation of widening of the ability, than on the first ship must have a total duration of about four enclosed months the last works in progress after the launch, previews that the portacontainer it comes initially cut to half longitudinally. Therefore, with the addition of three lines of container (it is possible to insert some from two to four), the width of the ship is increased by 32 to 39 meters and the ability comes increased of 1.340 teu.

"Candidated to the participation of widening - Bozidar Petrovic has explained, senior executive advisor and in charge of the first participation of this type carried out near HRDD - they are the Panamax ships delivered after 2005. We - he has added - consider that the market potential is important. The demands for information that we have received in recent months indicate that the know-how-how that we have acquired is a lot demanded".