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 Bergeland
is one bulk carrier, property of Bergesen d.y. ASA, which is the
one, who substitutes the largest bulk carrier in the world –
Berge Stahl, while it is on dock. Bergeland was registered in the
Stavanger in Norway, and sailing under IMO number 9002776. The vessel
is alittle bit smaller that the giant Berge Stahl, but not so small,
because it is second largest bulk carrier owned by Bergesen d.y.
ASA and one of the largest vessels of the world. The deadweight
of Bergeland is 322,941 metric tons, the length is 338 meters and
the width is 55 meters. The ore carrier has a draught of 23 meters.
These measurements are pretty large even for such vessel like Bergeland.
This giant was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. in South
Korea. This is ship-yard with very different and opposite reputation,
but I think that bulk carriers built from them are some of the most
qualited and most safety vessels of the world. Bergeland is designed
to transport iron ore all around the world, but operates mostly
in the regular route from the mines “Companhia Vale do Rio
Doce” in the eastern part of the Amazone, Brazil to the Europort
of Rotterdam, the largest European port and 4th largest world port.
T can guarantee about this, because I know this port very good,
and it is really large. But now our issue is not about the  port,
but for the vessel Bergeland, so its quay is not so far away from
the entrance, because even largest tankers can vesit this port far
away from the center, but near the entrance of the port, where with
barges the cargo is transported to its destination. Just for example
the iron ore from Bergeland is transported to ThyssenKrupp and Huttenwarke
Krupp Mannesmann is Germany, where are situated some of the largest
steel mills in Europe.
Bergeland is vessel built in 1992. It is pretty old,
built in time, when a large ship building is in the progress. The
vessel is designer with single hull and automatic hatches. This
technology is not so new, and not so ecological, because most of
the ships built nowadays are with double hulls, to prevent water
pollution. The cargo holds are seven, four long and three short.
This is because the ore carriers cannot use the full cargo space,
but they are using the full deadweight. The cargo is very heavy
and this decrease the center of weight, to be on lower level and
the ship becomes some kind of leaden toy soldier, which cannot overturn,
but there is a high rolling. This is not good for the mechanisms,
crew and ship construction. That is why the main idea of engineers
is to increase the position of weight center by height and with
this to decrease the stability of the ship (not so much of course)
and to increase ship’s strength. And I think Bergeland is the
vessel with good ratio between ship’s stability and strength.
date: 6th June, 2008 |
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