One of the largest car carriers of the world, built ever is the one called m/v Sunbelt Spirit. The vessel is part of the fleet of the large company for Ro-Ro Ships - Great American Lines Inc. When the ships was built in 2002, it was the largest RCC (reefer/car-carrier) and now is in the most successful and beautiful engineer decisions, that had even been made. The RCC ships has no ballast voyages, which is the main reason to be designed such kind of ships. In the one way RCCs are carrying cars and together with this they may carry general cargo. This type of ships were too much discussed and I think that the problem with them were too much and no more ships from this kind were built, and the ships from this series stayed unique. The Sunbelt Spirit is vessel designed to carry refrigetrated goods, which is very hard about engineers to design such kind of ship with such holds.
  The motorvessel Sunbelt Spirit has a Gross Register Tonnage of 60,587 m.t and Net Register Tonnage of 23,315 m.t. The overall length is 212 m and the breadth is 32 m. You may wonder for the height of the boards, when you see but fully loaded the vessel has a draft of 9.62 m. Due to the light cargo of the vessel, ones from that kind are mostly looking like this with height boards and low draft. The m/v Sunbelt Spirit has a capacity of about 6,190 units of small cars. Just some kind of vessels are too interesting with their outlooking and design. That is why we are presenting to you Sunbelt Spirit. Interesting about secondary cargo that Sunbelt Spirit can carry is that this is Refrigerated Cargo. Such vessel will need a large engine and large auxillary equipment, which will give enough power to the electricity and to the propeller. But engineers had done everything perfectly and the ship is doing its job.
date: 12th March, 2008