High
Glow is product tanker property of Golden Pegasus Navigation S.A.
The ships from this class are not carrying crude oil cargoes, but
usually some oil products, which are high explosive and very dangerous
for the nature. The shipbuilder Naikai Zosen Corporation created
this beauty in the ship-yard of Setoda Works and designed it according
to the latest requirements of IMO and SOLAS. The ship High Glow
is with maximized beam to pass through Panama Canal and the double
bottom allows the ship to carry light and heavy oil products and
also palm oil. The cargo ship has overall length of 179.90 meters
and beam of 32.20 meters. The depth of the ship is 19.25 meters
and the draft when fully loaded can reach 11.65 meters. The product
tanker High Glow has deadweight of 46,846 metric tons and gross
tonnage of 28,245 gross tons. These measurements are showing us
the large capacity of the vessel, which is 54,000 cubic meters.
The cargo space of the vessel is divided into 14 cargo tanks divided
into starboard tanks and port tanks. The ship is equipped also with
own pumps used for discharging of the liquid cargoes. The pumps
have ability to discharge 800 cubic meters per hour. If we have
in mind that ship can be discharged at maximum 2 points, easily
can be calculated that the cargo rate is more than 1,500 cubic meters
per hour and the whole ship can be discharged for 36 hours. This
is pretty high speed for such vessel, which reduces the costs for
staying in ports and increases the profits of the ship-owner.
The builders of the modern vessel High Glow, paid high
attention for the engine used on board and the shape of the hull,
to give maximum speed of the vessel with low water resistance. In
this case the fuel consumption will be reduced and the cargo ship
will be more useful. The main engine used on board is Hitachi-MAN
B&W 6S50ME-C, which gives total power of 8,530 kW at 123 rpm.
The main engine is quite modern and very reliable. The service speed
of the vessel is 15.7 knots, while the maximum speed is increased
to 16.5 knots. High Glow is really interesting vessel in engineer
point of view. The high forecastle decreases the swashing of the
bow and increases seaworthiness, which reduces the fuel consumption
in heavy sea. The ship-builders introduced special rudder facilitates,
which increased the maneuverability in narrow ports. All these systems
combined with eco-friendly systems for preventing air pollution
are making this ship quite modern and very useful for the ship-owner. date: 29th December, 2009
