Los Angeles Express Class

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Los Angeles Express Class
The Los Angeles Express
The Los Angeles Express
Ship data

associated ships

4th

Ship type Container motor ship
Shipping company North German shipping company H. Schuldt
Hapag-Lloyd
Shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan, South Korea
Construction period 2003 to 2004
Cruising areas worldwide ride
Ship dimensions and crew
length
299.99–303.03 m ( Lüa )
289.06 m ( Lpp )
width 40.00 m
Side height 21.07 m
Draft Max. 14.50 m
measurement 75,590 GT
42,233 NRZ
 
crew up to 29
Machine system
machine 1 × HSD MAN B&W 10K98MC-C two-stroke diesel engine
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		57,100 kW (77,634 hp)
Top
speed 		25.6 kn (47 km / h)
propeller 1 × fixed propeller
Transport capacities
Load capacity 85,810 dwt
Container 6732 TEU
Connections for refrigerated containers 500
Others
Classifications Germanic Lloyd

The Los Angeles-class Express is a series of four Panamax - Container motor ships of the Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd . The units manufactured in 2003 and 2004 are among the fifth generation of container ships.

description

The ship type of the Los Angeles Express series was built by the South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and was a further development of the previous Hapag-Lloyd classes with elements of the Ship of the Future project. You therefore have wheelhouses with optimized all-round visibility. The free-fall lifeboat, which is usually located at the stern on Hapag-Lloyd ships , is not available here; instead, two conventional closed lifeboats were installed on the side of the deckhouse. The total container capacity is almost 6,732 TEU, there are 500 connections for refrigerated containers .

The Bangkok Express in Antwerp

The ship's superstructures are arranged about four fifths of the length aft. The ships have eight holds , seven of which are in front of and one behind the deckhouse. The holds are locked by pontoon hatch covers . The ten-cylinder two-stroke diesel main engine of the type 10K98MC-C, built by the Korean manufacturer HSD under license from MAN B&W, acts directly on the six-bladed fixed propeller with a diameter of 8.2 meters. The on-board energy is provided by four STX auxiliary diesels and one emergency diesel. To support the berthing maneuver the ships are equipped with a Wärtsilä - bow thruster fitted with 2,000 kilowatts of power.

All four ships were built in Hamburg on behalf of the North German shipping company H. Schuldt and are used in long-term charter by Hapag-Lloyd. The lead ship, the Northern Magnum , was laid down on July 21, 2003, floated on October 18, 2003 and put into service on December 29, 2003 as the Los Angeles Express . The last ship in the series, the Northern Monument , was delivered in April 2004 and put into service as the Busan Express . All ships of the class were used in liner service between Europe and East Asia.

The ships

Los Angeles Express Class
Building name Shipyard / construction number IMO number Client Keel laying /
launching /
commissioning		 Later names Whereabouts
Northern Magnum Daewoo /
4092		 9252541 H. Debt June 9, 2003 /
September 5, 2003 /
November 10, 2003		 2003 → Los Angeles Express In motion
Northern magnitude Daewoo /
4093		 9252553 H. Debt July 21, 2003 /
October 18, 2003 /
December 29, 2003		 2003 → Bangkok Express In motion
Northern Majestic Daewoo /
4094		 9252565 H. Debt September 8, 2003 /
November 22, 2003 /
February 26, 2004		 2004 → San Francisco Express In motion
Northern Monument Daewoo /
4095		 9252577 H. Debt November 24, 2003 /
February 21, 2004 /
April 29, 2004		 2004 → Busan Express In motion

literature

  • Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: Container . The mega carriers are coming. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0882-X .

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