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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 |
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