Bonn Express class
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Bonn Express Class is the name of two container motor ships operated by the Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd . The Bonn Express class consisted of the ships Bonn Express and Heidelberg Express , which went into operation in 1989.
Together with the similar in basic design later buildings for shipping companies COSCO and ZIM , the series included this manufactured between 1989 and 1993 ship type of Howaldtswerke- German shipyard in Kiel nineteen units.
description
The ships of the Bonn Express series are characterized by a number of features that differ from the later equally large buildings of the HDW shipyard: The two Hapag-Lloyd ships with the wheelhouses developed in the Ship of the Future project are arranged at the stern with optimized all-round visibility Freefall lifeboats equipped. The ship superstructures are one container bay ahead at Bonn and Heidelberg Express . In 1992, the Hapag-Lloyd container ship duo were lengthened by around 30 meters each, and most of the later structures had this length from the start.
According to information from ÖTV, the construction of the two Hapag-Lloyd container ships was funded from the military budget.
The ships
In 1989, two ships were initially built for the Hapag-Lloyd shipping company .
- Bonn Express : The ship was scrapped in Aliağa in Turkey on February 4, 2015 .
- Heidelberg Express : The ship was also scrapped in Aliağa from June 2015.
Three more conventionally designed ships of the type followed in 1989/90 for the Chinese shipping company COSCO : Min He , Dong He and Gao He . These three ships received Cegielski / Sulzer main engines.
The Israeli shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. received a series of seven ships of the late series . (ZIM) from 1990 to 1992 as the ZIM America class : ZIM America , ZIM Canada , ZIM Italia , ZIM Korea , ZIM Japan , ZIM Hong Kong and ZIM Israel . These ships also received main engines from Cegielski / Sulzer.
In 1992/93 another series of the shipping companies DSR-Senator and Choyang finally got going : St. Petersburg Senator , Choyang Volga , Hamburg Senator and Sovcomflot Senator . Main engines of the Bremer Vulkan / Sulzer 7 L 80 MC type were installed within this series, which in some cases also had a visually optimized bridge of a different shape and a free-fall lifeboat.
literature
- German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen ISBN 3-928473-81-6 page 324 ff
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website with information from the book Wie schmiert - Armaments production and arms trade in the Hamburg area
- ↑ The Bonn Express on Miramar Ship Index (English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IMO no. 8711368
- ↑ Trond Lillestolen: Sea Star sells another capesize for scrap , In: Trade Winds , January 16, 2015 (English)
- ↑ End of a business trip: the "Bonn Express" is being recycled . March 1, 2015. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
- ↑ The Heidelberg Express on Miramar Ship Index (English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IMO no. 8711370
- ↑ HDW freighter is dismantled in the Aegean Sea. July 15, 2015, accessed July 16, 2015 .
- ↑ IMO no. 8806096, scrapped in 2014
- ↑ IMO no. 8806101, scrapped in 2014
- ↑ IMO no. 8818740, scrapped in Zhoushan in 2014 .
- ↑ IMO no. 8913459, scrapped
- ↑ IMO no. 8913461, scrapped in Alang in 2013
- ↑ IMO no. 8918978
- ↑ IMO no. 8918980
