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Multi-purpose containership Humboldt Express shown on sea trials. Two Samsung-built Hapag-Lloyd Ships Feature Unique Asymmetric Stern The Koje Shipyard of Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries Company, Ltd. in Korea recently delivered two multi-purpose con- tainerships to Hapag-Lloyd A.G. of Hamburg, the West German shipping company that operates worldwide services. Christened Humboldt Express and Cordillera Express, they each have a capacity of 1,938 TEUs in six cellular cargo holds and on deck. These sophisti- cated vessels were designed and built under the rules of German- ischer Lloyd, and are classed + 100A4, E, MC, AUT, Multi-pur- pose Container Vessel. These ships are diesel-propelled, single-screw cellular container- ships of 34,000 dwt. A traveling gantry crane is installed on the main deck for self-loading/unload- ing of boxes and breakbulk car- goes, making them independent of shoreside cranes. With a con-air ducting system installed, they can carry up to 262 TEUs of reefer containers in the hold, and up to Asymmetric stern developed at Hamburg Ship Model Basin is more expensive to build than a 100 TEUs of integral reefer boxes conventional afterbody, but fuel savings repay extra cost rapidly, as deck cargo. The ship has an overall length of 675.14 feet, beam of 105.64 feet, depth to main deck of 61.68 feet, and design draft of 30 feet. Accom- modations are provided for a crew of 33, all in private cabins that were installed as prefabricated units. Humboldt Express is propelled by a low-speed Hyundai/B&W 5L90GBE diesel engine with a maximum continuous rating of 19,800 bhp at 97 rpm, direct-con- nected to a five-bladed, highly skewed Ostermann propeller via Kobe Steel shafting. Operating at 85 percent of mcr, service speed on a draft of about 30 feet is 18.4 knots. Cruising range at the ser- vice speed is 20,000 nautical miles. The main propulsion engine is de- signed to burn heavy fuel oil at a rate of 46.5 metric tons per day. The most -unique feature of these _ ._.... 16 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
