Mountains fjord
 The Berge Fjord near Rotterdam
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The mountains Fjord was with a cargo capacity of 310,698 tons and a length of 332 meters one of the largest bulk carrier in the world. Under the flag of traveling from Panama ship belonged to the mountains Fjord Company and was by Berge Bulk (Singapore) bereedert .
History and background
The Berge Fjord was built from 1985 to 1987 under construction number 145 as Docefjord at the Brazilian shipyard Ishikawajima do Brazil Estaleiros for the Liberian company Wilsea Shipping Inc., a joint venture of the Norwegian company Wilh. Wilhelmsen and the Brazilian state company Docenave . The keel of the ship was laid on March 12th, the launch on December 17th, 1985. The completion took place on March 27th, 1987. After its completion, the ship was temporarily the largest bulk carrier in the world.
The ship, which initially sailed under the Liberian flag , was designed as an ore / oil cargo ship . It was used together with its sister ship Tijuca (later Berge Vik , scrapped in 2015) for transporting ore from Brazil to Japan and subsequent oil transport from the Persian Gulf to Europe . Each of these tours lasted around 100 days.
From March 2017 the ship was scrapped in Chittagong .
Technical data and equipment
The ship was powered by a Sulzer diesel engine (type: 8RTA 84) with a total output of 25,651 kW . The fuel consumption in operation was around 194 tons per day. Several diesel generators were available for the power supply .
The superstructures , which extended over around half the width of the ship, were arranged aft. At the level of the bridge deck there were two bridge cams , which extended from the bridge over the entire width of the ship.
There were five cargo holds in front of the superstructure , each of which was closed with two hatch covers. The hatch covers could be opened to the starboard side .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Shipbuilding Snapshot.pdf Brazilian Shipbuilding in Rejuvenation? Worldyards Market Comment, November 18, 2009.
- ↑ The Naval Review (PDF; 5.2 MB) , Vol. 75, January 1987. Section Merchant Naval Column , p. 39.
- ↑ Fleet ( Memento of the original dated February 26, 2004 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. , Docenave.
