Thanks to her high ice class the ensemble can be deployed in extreme conditions.
Feeder vessel container capacity.
As soon as all four a dijk vessels have been transferred the new operating company will provide the charter market with a total feeder capacity of 16 460 teu.
Feeder vessels or feeder ships are medium size freight ships in general a feeder designates a seagoing vessel with an average capacity of carrying 300 twenty foot equivalent units teu to 1000 teu feeders collect shipping containers from different ports and transport them to central container terminals where they are loaded to bigger vessels or for further transport by truck or rail into the.
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The 1000 cf is a cost efficient container feeder designed to accommodate the latest regulations in both container shipping and environmental protection.
The capacity of a panamax vessel is 6 300 teu.
Two four stroke diesel engines wärtsilä 9l46d 2x10 395kw drive a single cp propeller through a twin in single out reduction gear.
1 geared or gearless as per cargo handling type 2 freighter or pure container as per passenger carrier type 3 feeder or world wide foreign going vessel as per trade 4 panamax or post panamax vessel as per breadth of vessel or than 32 2m respectively built.
The elan s competitive advantages include the best possible loading capacity and flexibility her high service speed and highest ice class.
Since 2005 mv ensemble has been chartered out to a range of jr shipping s business relations within the container feeder market.
Feeder vessels are medium sized ships up to 3000 teu which carry between 300 and 1000 containers on average.
Given a set of mother vessels and feeders and a storage yard divided into yard sections the feeder vessel management problem aims i to assign a working shift for feeders calling ii to determine the berthing position for feeders iii and to decide the yard sections for the storage of transshipment container.
Besides this considerable expansion the shipping company has sold three of its vessels.
Since may 2005 the elan has been part of the jr shipping fleet.
The vessel is appreciated because of in particular her good loading capacity and flexibility and her large reefer container capacity.
If the vessel is operating at low speed or in light ship conditions it can run just one engine.
In the meantime however the panama canal is large enough to allow ships with a draught of 15 20 metres to pass through.
Feeder vessels mainly collect shipping containers from different ports and transport them to central container terminals or transshipment hubs where they are loaded to bigger vessels for further transport.
The capacity of a container ship is expressed in teu that is twenty foot equivalent units.
