The Nedlloyd Dejima class consisted of the two container ships Nedlloyd Dejima and Nedlloyd Delft . Both were put into service in 1973 for the Dutch shipping company Koninklijke Nedlloyd and were among the largest and fastest cargo ships in the world when they were built. After 25 years of service in the Europe-Far East service in one hand, the shipping company had the two ships scrapped in 1998.
In 1971 the three Scandinavian shipping companies Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (EAC), Copenhagen, Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet, Gothenburg and Wilh founded. Wilhelmsen founded the Scanservice Group in Oslo to offer a Europe-Far East container service with 15-day departures from the base port of Gothenburg. They ordered the four equally large and very fast container ships Selandia and Jutlandia (EAC), Nihon (SEA), and Toyama (Wilhelmsen). Shortly thereafter, the Dutch shipping company Nedlloyd joined the group with the two ships Nedlloyd Delft and Nedlloyd Dejima , whereupon the group was renamed ScanDutch . Together, the shipping companies of the Copenhagen-based ScanDutch Service Pool invested 250 million US dollars for this construction program of over 700,000 tdw, to which a further 35 million dollars came for the purchase of containers. In 1973, the French shipping company Messageries Maritimes was also incorporated with its Korrigan and in 1977 the Malaysian shipping company Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) was added.
Construction and time of use
The Nedlloyd Dejima and Nedlloyd Delft were ordered in 1971/72 by the Rotterdam shipping company Nedlloyd from the Bremer Vulkan shipyard in Bremen-Vegesack . After delivery began in September 1972, both ships served in the ScanDutch Far East service, which they did not leave until 1998. In 1981/82 both ships were converted into motor ships in Yokohama at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard. During this renovation, the characteristic long bulges were also shortened. The last voyage of Nedlloyd Delft finally ended in Chittagong, where it was beached for scrapping on July 24, 1998. The Nedlloyd Dejima ended her career on 6 November 1998 at a demolition yard in the Indian Alang.
technology
The most outstanding detail of both ships was their size. When they were built, the two third-generation container ships were among the largest of their kind in the world. Also worth mentioning is the exceptionally powerful propulsion system, which consisted of two Stal-Laval geared turbines with 40,500 hp each. After the conversion to motor ships in 1981/82, both ships received diesel engines with 25,000 hp each.
The 8-hatch ships were able to transport 2,952 TEU and were characterized by connections for refrigerated containers.
literature
Yearbook of shipping 1974 , transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin, page 100
Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: Container . The mega carriers are coming. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0882-X .
