Atlantic Cartier
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The Atlantic Cartier was a ConRo ship of the Atlantic Container Line shipping company .
history
The ship was built in 1985 at the Chantiers du Nord shipyard in Dunkirk and was part of the five-unit ACL G3 series . It was used in the shipping company's transatlantic service between Europe and North America.
In 1987 the ship was lengthened by 42.5 meters at the Korean shipyard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Ulsan . The ship was separated in the front area and an additional section was added. In September 2017, it was beached for demolition in Alang, India .
Fire on May 1st, 2013 in Hamburg
On May 1, 2013, the ship was docked at O'Swaldkai in the port of Hamburg for loading . The ship had already loaded cars and several hundred containers on several decks . Among other things, 8.9 t of the dangerous goods uranium hexafluoride , around 11 t of radioactive fuel rods , 3.8 t of ammunition and 180 t of ethanol were on board. The crew consisted of 26 people, and there were also six people on board for repair work.
At around 7.30 p.m., a fire broke out on a vehicle deck with 70 new vehicles for unexplained reasons , which spread to a major fire .
As a result, emergency services from several districts of Hamburg were brought together over the course of the night, and the Hamburg fire brigade brought heavy technical equipment. Two fireboats and three harbor tugs use water cannons to spray water from the harbor basin against the ship's side for cooling from the outside. The firefighters on board the ship used an unmanned, remote-controlled fire fighting tank .
The 33 containers with hazardous substances were recovered by the terminal staff during the fire service and stored at a safe distance on the company premises. Because there is no work in the Port of Hamburg on May 1st, a crane operator was initially missing .
Uranium hexafluoride must not come into contact with extinguishing water, but nowhere in northern Germany was carbon dioxide available to smother the flames in this way. On May 2nd at 5:11 am the fire brigade had the fire under control, after 16 hours the last fire nests were extinguished; Hazardous substances did not leak. Of the vehicles that caught fire, twelve were completely destroyed.
When the ship called again in the port of Hamburg in August 2013, protests broke out.
Technical specifications
The ship was powered by a six-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine from the manufacturer B&W (type: 6L90 GB) with an output of 20,300 kW . It reached a top speed of 18 knots .
The container was transported in the holds in the front area of the ship and on the open deck equipped with cell guides. Further containers could be stowed in the area provided for RoRo cargo. The ship's container capacity was initially 2,157 TEU. After the ship was extended, the container capacity increased to 2,908 TEU. The cargo hold for RoRo cargo was reached via a rear ramp with a load capacity of 420 tons.
Web links
- Ship information at ACL
- Fire on the ConRo cargo ship ATLANTIC CARTIER on May 1, 2013 in the Port of Hamburg , Accident Report 99/13, Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation (PDF file, 3.5 MB)
Footnotes
- ↑ Radioactive material on a burning freighter ( memento from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , NDR 90.3, May 17, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2013.
- ↑ a b Extinguishing work lasting hours , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , May 3, 2013.
- ^ "Considerable problems with fire extinguishing" on dangerous goods carriers , interview with Anjes Tjarks, Deutschlandradio, May 18, 2013.
- ↑ Kai von Appen: Almost Catastrophe at the Kirchentag , TAZ, May 18, 2013.
- ↑ Nuclear cargo on board - Almost catastrophe on May 1st? ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Green Citizenship Group Hamburg, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, May 16, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2013.
- ↑ Christian Patzelt: 200 forces fight fire on freighter ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fire Department Magazine, May 2, 2013.
- ^ "Atlantic Cartier" leaves the port under police protection , Hamburger Abendblatt, August 24, 2013. Retrieved on August 29, 2013.
