MEGA BOX SHIP BULLETIN PUBLISHED BY STANDARD CLUB
As the size of container ships has steadily increased, so has the level of difficulty in handling casualties involving them. A special 32 page edition of the Standard Club bulletin has been published and looks at the different legal, technical and practical considerations.
Ultra large container ships, or mega box ships as they are commonly called, can have a carrying capacity in excess of 20,000 TEU (twenty foot equivalent units) and are frequently in excess of 14,500 TEU. This can have a considerable impact in the event of a casualty. In particular, the global shipping and insurance markets have expressed concern regarding the firefighting capability of these ships, which has not necessarily kept pace with their increasing size. It can be extremely difficult to find suitable ports of refuge to accommodate these ships and which have infrastructure capable of handling the number of containers on board.
Standard Club has published an invaluable bulletin about mega box ships
There are also concerns about the difficulty and cost involved in carrying out a salvage or wreck removal of a mega box ship due to their size and the lack of suitable heavy-lift cranes/floating sheerlegs.
The Standard Club has had first-hand experience of dealing with container ship casualties, having handled the MSC Chitra, the MSC Flaminia and, more recently, the Maersk Honam. On 6 March 2018, the 15,000 TEU Maersk Honam (which was carrying 7,860 containers) caught fire whilst sailing in the Arabian Sea, which tragically resulted in the death of five of its crew. It took five days to bring the fire under control and a further seven weeks before the ship could be towed to a suitable port of refuge – Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates.
Download the special 32 page bulletin at
https://bit.ly/2XGYc5I. WAVEFOIL IS SET TO GIVE FERRIES WINGS TO OPTIMIZE WAVE POWER
The boat wings started as an unfinished idea in Eirik Bøckmann’s head. Now they’re being mounted on a ferry in the Faroe Islands. Actually, he doesn’t call them boat wings, but wavefoils. Eirik Bøckmann won the regional finals of the NTNU Researchers’ Grand Prix with a lecture on wave-propelled ships in 2013.
The wavefoils on the front of the ship enable the waves to contribute to propelling the ship forward. This reduces fuel consumption. At the same time, the foils can dampen some of the pitching and heaving motion from the waves and provide a more comfortable journey.
Photo by Wavefoil
The wavefoils are predicted to save about 4 per cent in fuel costs along the coastal route from Bergen to Kirkenes, which snakes its way between sheltered islands. But where there are more waves, savings of up to 15 per cent may be possible under ideal conditions. The rougher the waters, the greater the potential savings, in other words.
Perfect fit Now, Bøckmann is CEO of the company Wavefoil, which is turning those ideas into reality. In a construction hall at Hofstad in Trøndelag county, a six-tonne heavy-duty wavefoil module is ready to be mounted onto a ship.
Read the story in full at
https://bit.ly/2Y4oKxa.
The Report • September 2019 • Issue 89 | 9
Marine News
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