The City of St. Petersburg is a car transport ship for around 2000 vehicles, which was delivered to the Canadian company Fair Wind Navigation SA by the Kyokuyo Shipyard in 2010 . The ship is managed by the Dutch company Euro Marine Carrier BV , which belongs to the Japanese Nissan Motor Car Carrier .
The City of St. Petersburg , which is registered in Panama , was built by the Japanese shipyard Kyokuyo Shipyard Corporation under construction number 493 and delivered on December 22, 2010. The ship is almost 140 m long, 22.4 m wide and had a side height of 24.45 m. The measurement is 21,143 GT, the deadweight 5,000 dwt. The ship has four watertight compartments, 12 decks and a maximum draft of 6.5 m.
The ship from a driven seven-cylinder - diesel engine of the manufacturer MAN B & W, that of Hitachi Zosen at the plant in Innoshima in Japan in license built. The motor has a drive power of around 7,000 kW . The ship thus reaches a nominal speed of 16.5 kn .
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The ship is characterized by an unusual, aerodynamically rounded bow shape, these types of ship usually look more like "sharpened shoe boxes". This shape should result in a reduction in wind resistance of around 50%. It is expected that this will save up to 800 t of fuel annually. This results in a reduction of around 2500 t of CO 2 emissions.
The “environmentally friendly” design of the ship is part of Nissan's environmental program . Nissan intends to use the ship primarily for the transport of Nissan Leaf electric cars , which were assembled at the British plant in Sunderland , to the ports of the North and Baltic Seas .
