Dalian Express class

Dalian Express class
ex Hamburg Express class

Ship data associated ships 4th Ship type Container Ship Shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan, South Korea Construction period 2001 to 2003 Cruising areas Europe – Far East

Ship dimensions and crew length 320.58 m ( Lüa ) 304.00 m ( Lpp ) width 42.88 m Draft Max. 14.50 m measurement 88,493 GT / 36,175 NRZ   crew 25th

Machine system machine 1 × MAN - diesel engine (type: 12K98MC) Machine performance 68,640 kW (93,324 hp) Top speed 25 kn (46 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 100,006 dwt Container 7506 TEU Connections for refrigerated containers 700

Others Classifications DNV GL

The Dalian Express class , formerly the Hamburg Express class , is a series of container ships operated by the Hapag-Lloyd shipping company . They were built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan , South Korea .

The four units of the type Hyundai 7500 are among the first post- Panamax - ships of the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd . The type ship is the Dalian Express (formerly Hamburg Express ), followed by the Yantian Express (formerly Shanghai Express ), the Berlin Express and the Hong Kong Express . The ship's propeller weighs around 100 tons, making it one of the largest ship propellers in the world. The bow thruster has an output of 2,500 kilowatts. The four diesel generators , the emergency power generator and the shaft generator generate a total of 21,565 kilovolt amperes  . The ships can hold 10,950 m³ of fuel and 24,466 m³ of ballast water .

In 2012, the namesake was renamed Dalian Express in order to release the name for the new Hamburg Express (2012) in the new class.

The ships

Dalian Express class
Building name	Build number	IMO number	Keel laying Launching Delivery Commissioning	Renaming and whereabouts
Hamburg Express	1363	9229829	May 14, 2001 August 18, 2001 October 1, 2001 October 25, 2001	2012 Dalian Express
Berlin Express	1364	9229831	September 10, 2001 December 28, 2001 April 3, 2001 April 3, 2002	Completed as Shanghai Express , 2013 Yantian Express
Hong Kong Express	1365	9229843	May 13, 2002 August 24, 2002 October 1, 2002 October 15, 2002	2013 Ningbo Express
Berlin Express	1366	9229855	June 27, 2002 January 4, 2003 March 26, 2003 March 26, 2003	so in motion

Incidents

On January 3, 2019, on the Yantian Express , which was in the North Atlantic , a fire broke out in a container loaded on deck in hold 2 , which could not be extinguished with on-board resources due to the poor weather conditions. The fire fighting dragged on for two weeks, it was not until January 21 that the fire was declared extinguished by the rescue company Smit Salvage . The fire was probably caused by spontaneous combustion of the coconut charcoal loaded in a container, a pyro-charcoal that is used as water pipe charcoal for hookahs . In the cargo documents, the contents of the container were stated as coconut pellets instead of coconut charcoal, which should have been declared as dangerous goods .

Web links

Commons : Dalian Express class  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Hamburg's giant of the seas ( Memento from October 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Hamburger Abendblatt , August 31, 2002
• Baptism in Hamburg's sister city ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), press release, Hapag-Lloyd, April 6, 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ships with 6,000 to 8,000 TEU. Hapag-Lloyd ships. Hapag-Lloyd, accessed on February 3, 2020 . 
2. ^ Dalian Express. DNV GL, accessed on September 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Yanitan Express. DNV GL, accessed on September 10, 2017 . 
4. ^ Ningbo Express. DNV GL, accessed on September 10, 2017 . 
5. ^ Berlin Express. DNV GL, accessed on September 10, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Fire in the area of ​​the deck cargo on board the container ship Yantian Express on the Atlantic on January 3, 2019 (PDF, 13.3 MB) Investigation report 15/19. Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation , January 30, 2020, accessed on February 3, 2020 .