PCC
Grand Victory is newly built car carrier with pretty large size
and capacity. The ship was built in June 2008 by shipbuilder Shin
Kurushima in the ship-yard of Onishi Shipyard. The cars carrier
is property of Dynamic Inventor Marine S.A. and is operated by the
same company. Grand Victory is car carrier, which is designed and
projected by the latest requirements about environmental and efficiency.
The ship has overall length of 199.99 meters and length between
perpendiculars of 192.00 meters. The beam of Grand Victory is 32.26
meters, the depth is 35.80 meters and the draft, while the ship
is fully loaded is 9.62 meters. These measurements are talking a
lot for the cargo space on board, but the exact deadweight is 18,299
metric tons. The gross tonnage is of the ship is 59,217 gross tons.
The ship has capacity to carry up to 6,402 units. And to be high
efficient, the ship should realize pretty high speed, because the
time in ro-ro shipping is restricted. The PCC Grand Victory can
reach maximum speed of 20.1 knots, while the cruising one is 19.8
knots. This speed is provided by the main engine MAN B&W 7S60MC
(Mark VI), which is innovation and constructors tried to decrease
noise and air pollution to minimal borders. Also the vibrations
are decreased, and the performance of the propeller is optimized.
The car carrier Grand Victory is designed with new, absolutely innovated
asymmetric stern fin and bulbous bow, which is created only to increase
maneuverability of the ship.
The car carrier Grand Victory has capacity for 6,402
units divided into 12 cargo decks. Four from all decks are liftable.
This is making the ship with lower productivity while loading and
discharging, but this is compensated with two boarding ramps, which
are high productivity and allow large number of cars to be boarded
together. The innovations in fire equipment are also made to prevent
the ship and the cargo on board. The sensitive fire detection in
cargo holds and engine room are designed to detect fire even in
such cargo spaces, where actually the alarms are starting by themselves.
On board of Grand Victory is fire alarms are reliable and give high
defense to the ship. Also if the fire exists in the engine room,
the remote control over the engine can be fully get from the bridge.
This is met in many ships and mostly of these where the engine party
is not giving the night watch. date: 29th January, 2009