Bremer Vulkan CMPC ships
The Bremer Vulkan CMPC ships were multi-purpose container ships from the Bremer Vulkan shipyard . The abbreviation stood for Container Multi Purpose Carrier (German about container multi-purpose cargo ship ). The construction program comprised designs of various sizes, which were structured according to the container space capacity of the respective ship types.
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After the Bremer Vulkan had a well-filled order book until the 1970s, the number of orders fell sharply at the end of the decade with the end of large tank construction and until the beginning of the 1980s the Bremer Vulkan also got into the shipyard crisis . The shipyard then focused on what used to be a strong market segment, container shipbuilding. In the early 1980s, the shipyard's construction program included seven multi-purpose container ship designs of various sizes, the CMPC ships.
The group of CMPC ships comprises several construction variants, the relationship between which is essentially determined by the common basic concept. All ships were optionally set up for container transport or general cargo transport, in some cases also for heavy cargo transport and had several cranes for loading and unloading operations with their own loading gear . The cargo holds were with cell guides or removable intermediate decks can be fitted. The appearance of the individual versions, on the other hand, differed greatly from one another due to the size differences and can be distinguished as follows:
- CMPC 500 - a type of container ship for 500 TEU with a deckhouse located very aft and two cranes . This design was originally based on a construction contract from the Hamburg shipping company Horst Bartels at the Ernst Menzer shipyard . The Menzer shipyard in Geesthacht developed the type in collaboration with the Hamburg shipbuilding office Naval Consult and went bankrupt in July 1982 before construction of the ship began. Bremer Vulkan took over the contract on October 11, 1982 and began building the ship called Neustadt on January 11, 1983 .
- CMPC 650 - a type of container ship for 650 TEU with a deckhouse and two cranes arranged completely aft.
- CMPC 1150 - a type of container ship for 1150 TEU with aft arranged deckhouse and three cranes (one of them at the rear of the deckhouse and the middle one as a Gemini crane).
- CMPC 1300 - an extended variant of the type CMPC 1150 for 1300 TEU with aft arranged deckhouse and three cranes (one of them at the rear of the deckhouse and the middle one as a Gemini crane).
- CMPC 1400 - a type of container ship for 1400 TEU with a three-quarters aft arranged deckhouse and three cranes (one of them at the rear of the deckhouse).
- CMPC 1600 - a type of container ship for 1600 TEU with three-quarters aft arranged deckhouse and three cranes (one of them at the rear of the deckhouse).
- CMPC 1800 - a type of container ship for 1800 TEU with three-quarters aft arranged deckhouse and three cranes (one of them at the rear of the deckhouse).
In the mid-1980s, Vulkan developed the much more successful pure container ship types of the Econprogress program on the basis of the corresponding CMPC types (see Econprogress BV 1000 and Econprogress BV 16/1800 ).
Construction list (selection)
| CMPC multi-purpose container ships | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Type | Construction number |
IMO number |
Launched delivery |
Client | Renaming and whereabouts |
| Neustadt | CMPC 500 | 35 | 8222977 | May 10, 1983 June 28, 1983 |
Shipping company Horst Bartels, Hamburg | 1983 Concorde Wave , 1984 Neustadt , 1985 Americas Condor , 1986 Neustadt , 1987 Norasia Attica , 1989 Atlantic Island , 1990 EWL Paramaribo , 1992 Norasia Melita , 1992 Atlantic Island , 2004 Sainte Baume , 2006 Bay Mas , 2006 Kedung Mas |
| Mercury Sea | CMPC 1150 | 34 | 8310906 | 1984 | FA Vinnen , Bremen | 1986 Ville D´Uranus , 1987 Dutch Senator , 1989 Merkur Sea , 1989 Nedlloyd Himalaya , 1990 CMB Merkur , 1991 Merkur Sea , 1993 City Of Glasgow , 1997 CSAV Ranco , 1998 Merkur Sea , 1999 MSC Santiago , 2000 Merkur Sea , 2007 Kota Abadi , arrived in Alang for scrapping on December 28, 2011 |
| Heicon | CMPC 1150 | 1038 | 8303147 | 1984 | Janssen shipping company, Elsfleth | 1988 Euro Texas , 1989 Belgian Senator , 1990 Red Sea Energy , 1991 Calapadria , 1993 CGM Iguacu , 1994 Heicon , 1994 CSAV Rubens , 1995 Heicon , 1995 CSAV Rauten , 1996 Heicon , 1997 Sea Victory , 1997 Heicon , 1999 MSC Patagonia , 2001 Heicon , 2001 MSC Patagonia , 2004 Lykes Osprey , 2006 Pacific Osprey |
| Marcon | CMPC 1150 | 1039 | 8303159 | 1984 | Janssen shipping company, Elsfleth | 1987 German Senator , 1989 Nedlloyd Hong Kong , 1993 Nedlloyd Santiago , 1994 Marcon , 2004 New Hope Star , 2005 Golden Bridge , canceled from March 17, 2009 in Alang |
| Arkona | CMPC 1300 | - | 8412388 | - May 1985 |
Peter Döhle , Hamburg | 1988 Red Sea Excellence , 1989 Lyme Bay , 1990 CMB Merzario , 1992 CGM La Perouse , 1993 Kaduna , 1993 Arkon , l 1995 CGM Colbert , 1995 Arkona , 1997 MSC Nicole , 1998 MSC Argentina , 1999 Arkona , 2000 Ghana Star , 2002 Mamitsa , 2006 Msc Borneo , 2010 Sino North , arrived in Alang on October 14, 2011 for demolition |
| Mercury Iceland | CMPC 1300 | 79 | 8506361 | September 30, 1985 February 21, 1986 |
Partner shipping company MS "Merkur Island" FA Vinnen, Bremen |
1986 Colombo , 1988 Merkur Island , 1989 Nedlloyd Mauritius , 1995 Merkur Island , 1996 Empress , 19 MSC Lima , 1998 MSC Brasil , 1999 Merkur Island , converted into the Al Shuwaikh cattle truck in 1999 |
| Data: Equasis, large tonnage | ||||||
literature
- 500 TEU container multi-purpose cargo ship MS “Neustadt” . In: Ship & Harbor / Command Bridge . Vol. 35, No. November 11 , 1983, pp. 24-35 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Equasis homepage (English)
- ↑ grosstonnage homepage (English)