Maritime Reporter, June 1993

<BODY> <div> gines are Sulzer 6 S 20 four stroke engines with exhaust gas turbocharging. The automation con- cept of the ship is designed such that a global monitoring of the engine plant and the auxiliary plants is pos- sible from the bridge. An engine control room is not provided. The total system for the propulsion and the auxiliary machinery has been designed for one-man operation and monitoring. For ship management there is also a cargo computer for calculating the strength and stabil- ity values. For more on Flender Werft, Circle 5 on Reader Service Card -JN* » machinery and equipment were built as per the rules and regulations of the American Bureau of Shipping and the Registro Italiano Navale. The ship and its equipment were designed to ensure uninterrupted navigation year round. Loading and unloading of cars is accomplished via a stern quarter ramp which leads to the main deck, as well as a side ramp. The primary task of the Fides is the transport of trucks, trailers, cars, containers and general cargo. The vessel can hold up to 2,400 cars, 102 trucks and trailers and 504 contain- ers in two tiers. The ship was built with a raked stem with bulbous bow and a tran- som stern with a quarter ramp. The lower part of the cargo hold area is a double hull. The Fides is propelled by two non-reversible ship Sulzer 8ZA 40 S diesel engines, each with an output of 5,760 kW, which work via elastic couplings, one hydrauli- cally actuated multi-disk clutch each and one single step double reduction gear on a shaft plant with a control- lable pitch propeller. Power generation is provided by three diesel gensets, one shaft gen- erator and one emergency genera- tor. The three auxiliary diesel en- Flender Werff Delivers Con- tainer/Car Carrier "Fides" In completion of a contract re- ceived in December of 1990, the Lubeck Flender Werft AG company delivered the 584-foot "Fides," a Ro/ Ro trailer/container/car carrier. The ship has nine continuous decks and is a single-screw type designed for worldwide voyage with a forward arranged bridge and an aft-arranged machinery plant. Hull, The M/V Fides, recently delivered by Flender Werft. FIDES Equipment List Main engine Sulzer Propeller and Shafting KaMeWa Bowthruster KaMeW Bowthruster motor STN Auxiliary engines Sulzer Generators A. van Kaick Shaft generator STN Gear Renk Tacke Engine controls STN Steering controls Anschutz Deck machinery Brohl Coating Dittmer VHF, SSB radio Telema Radar Atlas Elektronik Compass Anschutz Autopilot Atlas Elektronik and Anschutz Pumps Allweiler, Dudek Cargo equipment Kvaerner "Constant Heat" output tor superior arc welding characteristics. Patented "Demand Pulse MIG" tor x-ray quality welds with hard wire. The AFTek Power Series ADVANCED FUSION TECHNOLOGIES Combination Power for MIG, TIG and STICK Welding. For more information and the name of your nearest AFTek dealer call 615-267-5933. Circle 163 on Reader Service Card 23 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>