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Maritime Transport is one sector of economy, which is developing
quickly and dynamically. The Car Carrying is part, which is absolutely
new and not so good, but we can see that Car Carriers are becoming
better and better with every month. Luna Spirit in a nice prove
for my words. The vessel Luna Spirit is vessel built in 2007 from
the famoust ship-builder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. The vessel
has an overall length of 180 meters and the length between perpendiculars
of 171.70 meters. The beam of Luna Spirit is 30 meters and the depth
is 30.94 meters. The Car Carrier has 10 decks, from which 2 are
liftable. The capacity of the vessel is 3,930 cars, including heavy
vehicles such as dump trucks, mobile cranes and bulldozers. The
vessel has deadweight of 11,100 metric tons and the Gross Tonnage
of 43,810 gross tons. The vessel Luna Spirit is modern and very
innovative
designed ship. The ship-owner is Fair Wind Navigation
S. A. and the ship-yard, where the vessel was built is Shimonoseki
Shipyard and Machinery Works. The vessel was finished in April,
2007 and is operating since the same month. The main engine of Luna
Spirit is Mitsubishi-UE8UEC50LSII, which is very high power and
low revolution engine, and gives a full power of 11,560 kW at 127
rpm. This wallows to the Car Carrier to sail with maximum speed
of 19.9 knots. The cruising speed of the vessel is 19.6 knots. This
is very high speed for vessel and allows it to be fast, reliable
and very profitable for the ship-owner.
The
capacity of the ship is for 3,930 cars, which can be loaded and
discharged from two shore rampways installed on the middle and stern
part of the starboard. The arrangement enables quick and efficient
moving of vehicles. The distance between the cargo decks is about
2.2 meters, which is enough for loading of high roof vehicles. This
is very important for the type of the ship and cargo compliance.
Luna Spirit is very nice and beautiful ship in exterior design.
The underwater shape of the hull is sharp, which reduces the water
resistance and increase the speed with lower power of the engine.
The propulsion system is strong and gives a high reliability for
the vessel. The bridge and engine rooms are high improved from all
other ships and equipped with most modern technique for calculating
and watching the work of the machine or vessels in the vicinity.
The engine is Mitsubishi with SIP (Swirp Injection principle), which
is giving a higher power with lower fuel consumption. The consumption
of lub oils is also decreased with 10%, which is making the engine
very environmental and profitable for the ship-owner.
date: 20th August, 2008 |
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