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company leader in oil carrying, definitely is Euronav, Belgium.
The vessel that we will present to you now is Ardenne Venture, part
of the Euronav fleet with cooperation of Wah Kwong Shipmanagement,
company situated in Hong Kong. The vessel was registered in Hong
Kong and the IMO number of Ardenne Venture is 9290347. The vessel
is VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) and the deadweight that it has
is 318,658 metric tons. This large vessel has length of 332.99 meters
and width of 60 meters. These great measurements gave to the vessel
draft of 22.5 meters. This large vessel is one of the largest ships
of the world, part of the family of Super-tankers. The Ardenne Venture
was built in year 2004 in the shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries,
situated in Korea. This ship-yard is one of the best qualited ship-yards
for building large vessels. That is why almost all the VLCCs are
built in Asia and Eastern coast of the large continent. The ship
is designed with double hulls from ecological reasons and this is
very important requirement for the IMO for tankers built after 1994.
The
vessel can carry three different types of cargo separately and can
be loaded from 3 points. The cargo pumps allow to the vessel to
be discharged from 3 separate points too, and with capacity of 5,000
cubic meters per hour each. This allows to the whole vessel to be
quickly unloaded and loaded again from the  next
port. The reducing of time for staying at anchor or on pier is very
profitable and useful for shipping and for the ship-owner company.
From data for the previous years, nearly 20% from the time of operation
of tankers is staying at anchor, which is too high percentage for
loses of the company. That is why all innovations of such kind of
vessels are not is creating large ship, but may be more profitable.
So innovations into the world of shipping are mostly in cargo systems
and propulsion systems. Almost everything is done the work pof the
crew to be easier and sailing with such kind of vessel is like a
game. The bridge of Ardenne Venture has all necessary equipment.
The GPS and ARPA are plotting position on the digital chart with
mistake of less than 10 meters and allows of the officers to make
a trial maneuvers, before they find the exact one. Also the computer
is analyzing situation with other ships, and AIS is giving exact
information about ships around. According to IMO requirements, the
Master should start the AIS, when the vessel leaves the port, and
stop it only in security reasons. So nowadays, the shipping is more
directed to gomputers, than to classical navigation.
date: 27th May, 2008 |
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