Maestro Diamond
Maestro Pearl , sister ship of the Maestro Diamond
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The Maestro Diamond is a bulk carrier of the Swiss shipping company Maestro Shipping . The ship sails under the flag of the Marshall Islands . On October 7, 2016, in heavy seas, it hit the Gedser Reef to the northwest of the Kadetrinne .
The ship is one of a series of bulk carriers built at the Japanese shipyard Saiki Heavy Industries. The ships in the series are partly different. The Maestro Diamond is operated by the Maestro Shipping company, which is based in Friborg , Switzerland . Jørgen Poulsen Dannesboe, who founded Armada Shipping A / S in 1971, is Chairman of the Board of Directors .
Technical data and equipment
The drive of the ship by a two-stroke - six-cylinder - diesel engine with 7,050 kW power . The engine acts on a propeller . The ship reaches a speed of around 15 knots . Four generator sets with an output of 1,998 kW are available for power generation.
The ship has five largely box-shaped holds . The total capacity of the holds is around 45,790 m³ for bulk goods and around 45,294 m³ for general cargo. Four ship cranes with a lifting capacity of 36 t each are available for cargo handling on the ship .
The tank ceiling in the holds can be loaded with 22 t / m².
Average 2016
The Maestro Diamond started her journey with 30,000 tons of fertilizers in Klaipeda , Lithuania , with the aim of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico . The ship's fuel tanks contained several thousand liters of heavy fuel oil and marine diesel.
On October 7, 2016, the ship ran aground in heavy seas between the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania peninsula Fischland-Darß-Zingst and the Danish island of Falster . The Joint Rescue Coordination Center Aarhus took over the rescue coordination . Due to strong winds and stormy seas, the ship could not initially be towed free. On October 10, 2016, the rescue teams feared that the outer skin of the ship would not be able to withstand the enormous loads that the hull structure caused by the ground contact . The ship's crew stayed on board. On the night of October 11, 2016, the ship was successfully towed free by a rescue team.
Average 2017
On August 29, 2017, the ship was involved in a collision with two other ships in the Sunda Strait . A tanker and another bulk carrier were also involved.
Web links
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- ^ M / V Maestro Diamond , Saiki Heavy Industries.
- ↑ Entry in the commercial register ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Stig Tenold, Martin Jes Iversen, Even Lange: Global Shipping in Small Nations Nordic Experiences after 1960 . Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ISBN 978-0-230-29454-7 , p. 99.
- ↑ Tugs reach the Maestro Diamond . n-tv . Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ↑ Freighter towed free - The "Maestro Diamond" is free again , n-tv, October 11, 2016.
- ^ Triple collision in Sunda Strait, Swiss and Indo bulk carriers and tanker. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
