Dublin Express class

Dublin Express class

The Glasgow Express

Ship data associated ships 3 Ship type Container motor ship Shipping company Hapag-Lloyd Shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering , Geoje, South Korea Construction period 2001 to 2002 Cruising areas worldwide ride

Ship dimensions and crew length 281.00 m ( Lüa ) 268.86 m ( Lpp ) width 32.20 m Side height 15.54 m Draft Max. 12.50 m measurement 45,800 GT 25,880 NRZ

Machine system machine 1 × Sulzer 9RTA96CB two-stroke diesel engine Machine performance 51,480 kW (69,993 hp) Top speed 25.0 kn (46 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 54,157 dwt Container 4115 TEU Connections for refrigerated containers 1300

Others Classifications Det Norske Veritas

The Dublin-Express class is a series of three Panamax - Container motor ships of the Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd . The units manufactured in 2002 are among the fourth generation of container ships. The refrigerated container ships had the largest number of refrigerated container spaces in the world when they were built .

description

The series consists of three structurally identical Panmax full container ships with a capacity of 4115 TEU each , which were delivered in the course of 2002. The ships Contship Aurora , Contship Australis and Contship Borealis were built by the South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Goeje for the shipping company Contship Containerlines . Together with the seven structurally identical ships of the Santa R class of the Hamburg shipping company Claus-Peter Offen , the ten ships formed the so-called Albatross class. All ships of the class were initially used in liner services between Europe and Australia; for Hapag-Lloyd, the ships now operate as Dublin Express , Glasgow Express and Liverpool Express in South American service.

The ship's superstructures are arranged about four fifths of the length aft. They are designed as fast reefer container ships with a capacity of 1,300 electrical connections for integrated reefer containers, thus replacing the reefer container ships Dole Chile and Dole Columbia , each with 990 reefer container connections, as the former largest of their kind. The pure refrigerated transport capacity per ship corresponds roughly to that of the largest conventional refrigerated ships currently in service .

A 9RTA96C-B two-stroke diesel engine with almost 51,500 kW produced by the shipyard under a Sulzer license helps the ships achieve their high service speed of 25.1 knots. In order to be able to provide the necessary energy to operate the large number of refrigerated containers, each of the ships has five diesel generators with a total output of 10,000 kW. A bow thruster with 1600 kW is used for safe docking and casting off.

The ships

Dublin Express class
Building name	Shipyard / construction number	IMO number	Client	Keel laying, launching, delivery	Later names	Whereabouts
Contship Aurora	Daewoo / 4082	9232565	Contships	March 11, 2002 May 18, 2002 September 4, 2002	2005 CP Aurora , 2006 Maersk Dexter , 2007 Liverpool Express	in motion
Contship Australis	Daewoo / 4083	9232577	Contships	May 21, 2002 - December 5, 2002	2005 CP Australis , 2006 Maersk Dale , 2007 Dublin Express	in motion
Contship Borealis	Daewoo / 4084	9232589	Contships	July 15, 2002 - December 20, 2002	2005 CP Borealis , 2006 Maersk Dayton , 2007 Glasgow Express	in motion

literature

• Krüger-Kopiske, Karsten Kunibert: The ships of Hapag-Lloyd . Drawings and CVs. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7822-0861-7 .

Web links

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

• Class overview from Hapag-Lloyd

Individual evidence

1. ↑ data on containership-info.com (English)
2. ^ DNV GL: Liverpool Express . Retrieved September 3, 2017.
3. ^ DNV GL: Dublin Express. Retrieved September 3, 2017 . 
4. ^ DNV GL: Glasgow Express. Retrieved September 3, 2017 .