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 The Merkur Star in Rotterdam
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The ship designs Ecobox CC 34 and Ecobox CC 42 of the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) are container motor ships . Overall, the series of this type of ship built between 1994 and 1997 by the Flensburg shipyard comprised twelve units, two of which were built at the North Sea Works in Emden .
history
After the takeover of the Flensburg shipyard by the Lübeck shipowner Egon Oldendorff , the FSG developed a joint concept in the early 1990s with five variants of a ship type with load capacities of 25,000, 34,000, 38,000, 42,000 and 48,000 tons. On the basis of a basic design with aerodynamic fore and aft hulls, the client could choose the number of cargo space modules. A subsequent conversion to a longer construction variant was also prepared by the shipyard.
The ships are designed as multi-purpose dry cargo ships with a far aft deckhouse and are mainly intended for container transport. The design had a number of independent details. Compared to container ships of the same size of their time, the Ecobox ships each have around 40 percent higher load capacity, tank ceiling area and cargo space and have box-shaped cargo holds , the specialty of which is the lack of hatch coaming . The reinforced upper coaming, which normally forms the upper end of the hatch coaming, is embedded directly in the main deck of the Ecobox type. The task of the missing hatch coaming in the upper chord is taken over by the upper part of the side double hull , which is designed as a service corridor with reinforced side walls ( shear corridor outside and cargo hold wall inside) above the side tanks . In addition, the construction deliberately avoided the extensive use of higher-strength and thus thinner shipbuilding steel, which should make the ships much more durable during their operating time and increase the scrap weight during the subsequent demolition.
The shipyard accepted the construction contracts for the first four CC 42 ships in November 1992 from the Chinese state foreign trade organization, two of which were built by the Emden Nordseewerke. Another four CC 42 orders followed for the Hamburg shipping company Alfred C. Toepfer , who had chartered it out to the American Lykes Lines on a long-term basis . However, Toepfer did not accept the third and fourth construction contracts after the collapse of the American shipping company, they got going for the Bremen shipping company FA Vinnen and the Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company . This was followed by two small CC 34 Ecoboxes for the Chilean shipping company Compañía Chilena de Navegación Interoceánica (CCNI). The last two ships were a CC 42 each for the shipping company F. Laeisz and FA Vinnen.
The ships
| Ecobox ships | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Type | Shipyard / construction number |
IMO number | delivery | Client | Renaming and whereabouts |
| Trade Sol | CC 42 | FSG / 685 | 9064748 | April 26, 1994 | Trade Sol Shipping, Hong Kong Worlder Shipping |
1994 Sea Excellence , 1994 Chesapeake Bay , 1995 Jadroplov Trader , 1995 Trade Apollo , 2002 MSC Bruxelles , 2003 MSC Lara , so on |
| Trade Cosmos | CC 42 | FSG / 686 | 9064750 | 1994 | Trade Cosmos Shipping, Hong Kong Worlder Shipping |
1995 Sea Excellence , 1994 6 Trade Cosmos , 2002 MSC Beijing , 2003 MSC Eleonora , so on |
| Trade Selene | CC 42 | North Sea Works / 506 |
9064786 | April 1995 | Trade Selene Shipping, Hong Kong Worlder Shipping |
2001 MSC Amsterdam , 2002 Trade Selene , 2003 MSC Amsterdam , 2008 MSC Nairobi , 2010 Nairobi , scrapped in Alang from January 8, 2015. |
| Trade Eternity | CC 42 | North Sea Works / 507 |
9064798 | October 1995 | Trade Eternity Shipping, Hong Kong Worlder Shipping |
2001 MSC London , 2002 Trade Eternity , 2004 MSC Zurich , 2009 Ocean Protector , 2015 Ze Hong , so in motion |
| James Lykes | CC 42 | FSG / 688 | 9102710 | March 1995 | Alfred C. Toepfer, Hamburg | 1996 James , 2000 CMA CGM Monet , 2002 Nautic II , 2004 MSC Mediterranean , so in motion |
| Joseph Lykes | CC 42 | FSG / 689 | 9102722 | August 1995 | Alfred C. Toepfer, Hamburg | 1996 Med Fos , 1997 Zim Venezia I , 1998 Joseph , 2000 TMM Puebla , 2001 Joseph , 2001 MSC Canberra , so on |
| Catania | CC 42 | FSG / 691 | 9102746 | April 26, 1996 | Sturio International, Monrovia | during the construction Catania , completed as Jean , MSC Don Giovanni in 1996 , so underway |
| CCNI Chiloe | CC 34 | FSG / 687 | 9080998 | August 1996 | Shipping company "CCNI Chiloe" Rickmers Reederei, Hamburg |
1996 Maersk Curitiba , 1998 CCNI Chiloe , 2000 Santiago , 2002 Togo Star , 2004 Santiago , 2004 CCNI Vancouver , 2007 Santiago , 2014 Santi , scrapped from March 19, 2014 at Navyug Ship Breaking Company in Alang. |
| John Lykes | CC 42 | FSG / 690 | 9102734 | March 1996 | FA Vinnen, Bremen | 1996 Merkur Star , 1997 Houston Express , 1998 Merkur Star , 2000 CMA CGM Seurat , 2002 Merkur Star , 2002 MSC Oman , 2003 Merkur Star , 2006 MSC Natal , 2012 Merkur Star , 2014 Hong Yuan 01 , so on |
| CCNI Aysen | CC 34 | FSG / 692 | 9122538 | December 1996 | Shipping company "CNNI Aysen" Rickmers Reederei, Hamburg |
1996 Maersk Montevideo , 1998 CCNI Aysen , 2000 Superba Bridge , 2000 P&O Nedlloyd Ottawa , 2001 Hamburgo , 2002 Ghana Star I , 2004 CCNI Busan , 2007 Hamburgo , 2010 Dong Fang Qiang , so in motion |
| Priwall | CC 42 | FSG / 693 | 9158965 | 1997 | Laeisz shipping company, Rostock | 1997 Sea Panther , 2001 Priwall , 2002 MSC Chile , 2004 Priwall , 2004 MSC Chile , 2009 Priwall , scrapped in Alang from April 7, 2016. |
| ZIM Piraeus | CC 42 | FSG / 694 | 9158977 | September 1997 | FA Vinnen, Bremen | 1998 Merkur Sky , 1999 MSC Sicily , 2001 Merkur Sky , 2002 MSC Gauteng , 2002 Merkur Sky , 2003 MSC California , 2005 Merkur Sky , 2007 CMA CGM Ylang , 2011 Merkur Sky , 2012 M Sky , Ky , from October 5, 2012 in Alang scrapped. |
| Data: Equasis, large tonnage | ||||||
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNV GL: MSC Lara. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
- ↑ John Lingwood: New Ship News in: Ships monthly No.11, Vol. 29, November 1994, pp. 12-15
- ↑ Flensburger's first Ecobox Design ready for Service , Naval Architect May 1994, p. 231.
- ↑ Equasis homepage (English)
- ↑ grosstonnage homepage (English)
literature
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe; Abert, Hans Jürgen: The history and fate of German series freighters . Volume 1 - The development, German series after 1945 The fate of the Hansa-A-Freighter. Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Zwischenahn 1998, ISBN 3-928473-41-7 .
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe; Abert, Hans Jürgen: The history and fate of German series freighters . Volume 2 - The fates and résumés of the Hansa B and C freighters, the German multi-purpose freighters, type '36 / 36 L ', Trampko, type' Rendsburg ', BV 16/1800, RW 39/49 and Eco-Box. Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Zwischenahn 1998, ISBN 3-928473-42-5 .