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 Ocean
Comet is one of the newly built Capesize bulk carriers. The ship
was built in Imabari Shipyard & Works by Namura Shipbuilding
Co., Ltd. in March 2008 with hull number 276. The vessel is new
and modern and the deadweight of Ocean Comet is 176,943 metric tons.
The vessel is property of Fair Wind Navigation S.A. The ship has
overall length of 288.97 meters and length between perpendiculars
279.00 meters. Ocean Comet has beam of 45.00 meters, depth of 24.40
meters and a draft of 17.93 meters, when the ship is fully loaded.
The ship is pretty large and the Gross Tonnage, which Ocean Comet
has 89,603
GT. Ocean Comet is very interesting built bulk carrier,
with new innovation technology for decreasing water resistance,
to decrease fuel and lubricant oil consumption and increasing of
productivity of propulsion system. The main engine of Ocean Comet
is MAN B&W 6S70MC Mark VI with full power of 16,860 kW at 91.0
rpm. The ship can reach high speed 16.3 knots and the cruising speed
is about 15.2 knots. The ship has a large cargo spaces divided into
nine holds covered with nine hatches, five pairs of water ballast
tanks, and fore peak tank , aft peak tank and the No.6 cargo holds
that can be used as water ballast tank.
The hold are with cossed angles for easy and very
useful discharging of the cargo into ports. This is used from many
years in ship-building because such crossing increase  the
ship's stability and also allows faster dischrging fo the vessel.
Ocean Comet is modern and very useful and profitable ship of Fair
Wind Navigation S.A., which is designed to carry all kind of bulk
cargoes. We already told that fuel consumption of the ship is reduced.
The Namura flow Control Fin (NCF) and high-efficiency N-PAI NHV
type propeller are also used for improved propulsion performance
and fuel oil saving. This is very environmental and very efficient
for the ship-owner and whole Maritime Transport. The ship is one
real engineer wonder built and designed by Imari Shipyard &
Works.
date: 11th October, 2008 |
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