Motor
vessel Rigoletto is one of middle size car carrier. The vessel is
property of the large and famous company for ship-owning Wallenius
Lines and is sailing under the flag of Sweden. This is very good
advertising for the vessel and for the company, because we all know
that Sweden requirements are very hard and only high rated and very
good vessels can sail under such flag. The vessel Rigoletto has
a capacity for 4,600 cars or capacity for 2,460 cars and 360 trucks.
This car carrier has a length of 190.00 meters, a beam of 32.20
meters and draft of 9.2 meters. The deadweight of motor vessel Rigoletto
is 17,197 metric tons and the gross tonnage of the ship is 43,487
gross tons. The net tonnage of the vessel is 22,539 net tons. The
ship is very good looking and very profitable for the ship-owner.
Motor vessel Rigoletto was built by the shipbuilder Hitatchi Innoshima
in Japan. The vessel is pretty old, and the year of building is
1977, but the quality of Japanese ship-yard is very good and you
can see that this ship is in great condition and covers all necessary
requirements of IMO and Swedish Maritime Administration. The car
carrier Rigoletto has a main engine from old generation, and the
model is Hitatchi SULZER 6RND 90 with full
power of 12,800 kW. The vessel has 12 cargo decks, from which one
is hoistable.
The
vessel is pretty modern and good for the years of building. We should
not forget the Rigoletto was built in the late year 1977 and then
the standarts and requirements were different than today. Also the
idea of developing of machines in the year 1977 was much different
and that reflected most to old vessels to be much different and
almost inapplicable today. The profits, which one vessel from 1977
brings to the ship-owner are less than the one, which one new vessel
will give. That is why many of the good known ship-owners prefer
to use newly built vessels, with lower restrictions in port entering
and lower costs per day at sea. But most of all the problems are
with optimization of the cargo holds and decks. The vessel Rigoletto
has only 1 hoistable ramp, which is a great problem of old vessel
and increase the time for loading. In fact the loading and discharging
can be done by the stern ramp, which is 3.90 meters width, 4.40
meters height and has a capacity for 50 tons. You can imagine about
the speed of loading, but that is not a big problem for this ship,
because of not so large measurements and not so large number of
cars, which can be carried. This is the motor vessel Rigoletto,
which we tried to introduce in front of you. That is one ship with
long history, many voyages and interesting design, which turns us
back to the past. date: 29th July, 2008
