Cap class (1990)

*Cap* class
	The Cap Finisterre in Hamburg
Ship data
Ship type	Container Ship
Shipyard	Flender-Werke , Lübeck; Companhia Comercio e Navegacao Estaleiro Maua, Niterói
Construction period	1990 to 1994
Units built	5
period of service	Since 1990
Ship dimensions and crew
length	200 m ( Lüa )
width	32.2 m
Side height	18.8 m
Draft	Max. 12 m
measurement	30,000 GRT
crew	21 to 21 men
Machine system
machine	1 × Sulzer - Diesel
Machine ; performance	16,200 kW (22,026 hp)
Top ; speed	18.5 kn (34 km / h)
propeller	1 × controllable pitch propeller
Transport capacities
Load capacity	33,200 dw
Container	2,000 TEU
Connections for refrigerated containers	650

The Hamburg-Süd container ships of the Cap class were built in 1990/91 at the Flender works for the South America service. They were the last Hamburg Süd ships to be equipped with Porthole refrigerated container technology.

Construction at the Lübeck Flender works

The Cap Trafalgar in dry dock

The full container ships with a high refrigerated container capacity are also known as refrigerated container ships. They were developed on the basis of the Flender 2000 type and are measured at a length of 200 m, width of 32.2 m, draft of 12 m and a side height of 18.8 m with around 30,000 GRT. The ships have a load capacity of 33,200 tdw and container spaces for 2,000 TEU or 1,855 TEU with a weight of 14 t / TEU. The number of refrigerated container connections was 650 TEU. There were mostly parking spaces for porthole refrigerated containers below deck, which were connected to ship-mounted cooling rods. The five holds are closed with 26 hatch covers and, apart from hatches 1 and 2, are reached by the two ASEA Hägglunds cranes.

The Alianca Brasil in floating dock

The ships were classified by Germanischer Lloyd and have an ice class . A large number of points from the Ship of the Future program were implemented during construction , including the optimization of the hydrodynamic shape of the lower and surface hulls and the propeller, the shape and function of the deckhouse , various innovations in deck and engine operation or the equipment with a free-fall lifeboat .

Replicas in Brazil

This class was formed from three ( Cap Trafalgar , Cap Polonio and Cap Finisterre ) or five ships, because at the Brazilian shipyard Companhia Comercio e Navegacao Estaleiro Maua in Niterói , two identical ships were built as replicas in 1994 and 1995 ( Alianca Brasil , Alianca Europa ) . The Cap Finisterre received an additional superstructure deck and serves as a training ship. The main engine was a low-speed Sulzer diesel engine of type 6RTA 76, built by H. Cegielski - Poznań . It developed 16,200 kW, drove a controllable pitch propeller and gave the ship a speed of 18.5 knots. In addition, a shaft generator was driven by the main engine via a gearbox. The ship was equipped for automatic ship engine operation, so the engine room was left unmanned at night.

The Cap ships were sailed with a crew of 18 to 21 people, including mostly two to four trainees or interns. On the Cap Finisterre as a training ship, there were more people on board.

Monte class replaces the Cap class

The Monte class has replaced the Cap class

The ships needed around seven weeks for a round trip, and from 2004 they were replaced by the much larger 5,000 TEU container ships of the Monte class . In contrast to the Cap ships, however, these have no spaces for porthole containers, but only spaces for integral refrigerated containers . The lead ship of the class was scrapped in March 2010.

The ships

Cap class
Surname	Build number	IMO number	Keel laying, launching, delivery	Renaming and whereabouts
Cap Trafalgar		8710950	- - 1990	CGM Pasteur → CMA CGM Pasteur → Cap Trafalgar → scrapped in 2010
Cap Polonio		8710962	- - 1990	Polonio (2013) → scrapped in 2013
Cap Finisterre		8710986	- - 1991	Finisterre (2013) → 2014 demolition in Alang
Alianca Brasil		9000730	- - 1994	2014 demolished in Aliaga
Aliacana Europe		9000742	- - 1995	MSC Jenny (2015) → in motion

literature

Container cargo ship "Cap Trafalgar" . In: Hansa . Vol. 127, No. 5/6 , March 1990, pp. 263-269 .
Linde, H .: For the transport of refrigerated cargo in containers on board ships, Hansa No. 24/1971
Hochhaus, K.-H .: Working group refrigerated container shipping; Schiff und Hafen (49) 1997, issue 2, pp. 52-54
Hochhaus, K.-H .: Application of refrigeration on ships; in textbook of refrigeration technology, volume 2, CF Müller, Heidelberg, 1997
Wild, Y., Hochhaus, K.-H .: Refrigerated container shipping with porthole and CA refrigerated containers; Conference proceedings “Sea transport of refrigerated goods” TUHH-STG 1997
Hochhaus, K.-H .: Developments in refrigerated container shipping; Schiff und Hafen (51) 1999, issue 10, pp. 10-17