One of the largest bulk carriers built ever is the owe owned by Pronav - SAAR N. The vessel is with deadweight of 122,259 mtons, which is very much for bulk carrier. SAAR N has BRT of 63,152 mtons and NRT of 37,568 mtons.The vessel is with lenght of 266.0m and the beam is 40m. Also the draft of the vessel is 15.42m, and it is very hard or it to come into many of ports, because of large measurements. If you like big ships you should know that they need of a lot of power to move. The vessel SAAR N is equiped with main engine Daewoo Shipbuilding & Heavy Machinery Ltd with power of 11907 kW. The vessel was built in 1995 and is in very good condition. The outlooking of this ship is wonderful it is something very large and very interesting. You may imagine how this ship is maneuvering, but it is not so bad.
  To be useful this ship don't need so high speed, but also not so low. So the costructors had desided that the optimal speed of SAAR N bulk carries should be not more than 15 knots, and it is 14 in fact. The maximum speed of the vessel is about 15 knots. The ship of ProNav is operating in the Atlantic Ocean, between the 3 of the continents - Europe, South and North America. SAAR N has 9 holds, 4 longer and 5 smaller. That is beacuse when the heavier mateieal should be carried, to be easily stowed.
  The ship SAAR N is sailing under conviniant flag of Liberia and is registered in Monrovia, as more of the largest vessels of the company ProNav. The MMSI number of the vessel is 636090653, the IMO number is 9085340 and the call sign is A8CI8 (Alpha 8 Charlie India 8). The ship is fully equiped with all rescue services that it may need for the crew to feel safe on board. The crew is mostly Bulgarians, Croatians, Filipino and Tovalo.
date: 6th March, 2008