Olympic series
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MSC Oscar in Rotterdam
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The Olympic series is a series of container ships operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The six commissioned ships were delivered in 2014 and 2015. They are among the largest container ships in the world.
history
The series was commissioned by Hong Kong Asset Management in July 2013 ; however, the construction contract was later taken over by China's Bank of Communications Financial Leasing . It was built in 2014/2015 by the South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and was originally intended to consist of only three units.
The ships are operated by the Geneva- based Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The ships are used in liner services between Europe and East Asia. In addition, MSC is putting a few more ships into service, each with around 19,000 TEU space.
The first ship of the series was christened MSC Oscar on January 8, 2015 . As the largest container ship in the world with 19,224 TEU, it replaced the CSCL Globe with 19,100 TEU, which had held this title since November 2014.
Incident with lost containers of the MSC Zoe
At the beginning of January 2019, the MSC Zoe lost hundreds of containers on the voyage from Portugal to Bremerhaven in the North Sea during storm Alfrida . Initially, 291 containers were reported, of which two or three containers contained dangerous goods, benzoyl peroxide or lithium batteries. On February 6, 2019, MSC again reported the number of lost containers and increased the number from 291 to 345. The joint interim investigation report from December 2019 by the Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation and the Dutch Safety Board mentions 342 containers.
After the incident, numerous debris washed up on the beaches of the West and East Frisian Islands. Larger amounts of flotsam was also found in the nets of fishermen. The containers that had gone overboard and drifting or sunk in the water were searched for by special ships. Containers pose a dangerous collision risk for ships and fishing nets. Most of the containers that went overboard or their contents could be found and recovered, including at least one of the dangerous goods containers. In September the search for the remaining containers on the German side was stopped.
The General Association of the German Insurance Industry considers a so-called build-up to be the cause of the accident. The construction of large container ships with a flat stern implies the risk that breakers rolling under the ship cause strong vertical acceleration forces. The twistlocks with which the stacked containers are attached to one another are not designed for this; they work against horizontal loads. That is why iron bars are now used to secure the individual container towers.
technology
The ships classified by DNV GL belong to the group of ULCS container ships. They have comparable dimensions to the units of the Triple-E-Class and the CSCL-Globe type with a slightly larger number of container spaces and a higher load capacity.
The deckhouse is striking in terms of shipbuilding and is located further forward than in the majority of conventional container ships, which enables an improved line of sight and thus a higher forward deck loading. The bunker tanks are arranged below the superstructure; they meet the relevant MARPOL regulations. The holds of the ships are closed with pontoon hatch covers. The maximum container capacity was initially given as 18,400 TEU; however, the units were built with a nominal 19,224 TEU. If the storage space is fully utilized, an average container weight of around 10.2 tons could be transported; With the average container weight of 14 tons, which is usually assumed for comparison purposes, the capacity is reduced to around 14,000 units. There are also 1,800 connections for integral refrigerated containers .
A two - stroke diesel engine is used to drive the ships; it acts on a fixed propeller . The ships are equipped with two electrically powered bow thrusters . Four generators powered by MAN diesel engines are available for the on-board power supply. An emergency and harbor generator driven by a MAN diesel engine was also installed.
The ships
| Olympic series | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Build number | IMO number |
Keel laying, launching, delivery |
Client | Renaming and whereabouts |
| MSC Oscar | 4277 | 9703291 | July 15, 2014 December 23, 2014 December 29, 2014 |
Xiangtian International Ship Lease Company, Hong Kong MSC |
in motion |
| MSC Oliver | 4278 | 9703306 | October 13, 2014 January 10, 2015 March 30, 2015 |
Xianghai International Ship Lease Company, Hong Kong MSC |
in motion |
| MSC Zoe | 4279 | 9703318 | December 26, 2014 April 11, 2015 June 24, 2015 |
Bank of Communications / Hanyuen, Shanghai MSC |
in motion |
| MSC Maya | 4280 | 9708679 | December 30, 2014 May 23, 2015 August 19, 2015 |
Ocean Genius Shipping MSC |
in motion |
| MSC Sveva | 4281 | 9708681 | December 30, 2014 August 15, 2015 October 22, 2015 |
Minsheng Financial Leasing Company, Beijing Ocean Honor Shipping, Geneva |
in motion |
| MSC Clara | 4282 | 9708693 | December 30, 2014 August 21, 2015 November 12, 2015 |
Ocean Triumph Shipping, Hong Kong MSC |
in motion |
| Data: Equasis, large tonnage | |||||
Web links
- Container overboard from MSC ZOE, January 1 - 2, 2019 , Joint investigation report by the Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation (BSU), Dutch Safety Board (DSB) and Panama Maritime Authority (PMA) (PDF, 12.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Adams: DNV GL welcomes MSC Oscar, world's largest boxship, to fleet dnvgl.com , February 19, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Janet Porter: MSC Oscar becomes the world's largest boxship , Maritime First Newspaper , December 16, 2014.
- ↑ Laura Stackhouse: The MSC Oscar has already stolen the CSCL Globe's 'biggest ship' title. Marine Trader Online, January 13, 2015, accessed February 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Janet Porter: MSC Oscar becomes the world's largest boxship , Lloyd's List, December 11, 2014.
- ↑ "MSC Zoe": Authorities issue interim report. In: ndr.de. December 12, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Disaster of the "MSC Zoe": microplastics on Borkum. In: ndr.de. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: "MSC Zoe" as an involuntary permanent berth . In: Daily port report , January 8, 2019, p. 1.
- ↑ Freighter loses more than 250 containers in the North Sea. Spiegel-Online, January 2, 2019, accessed January 3, 2019 .
- ↑ "MSC Zoe": Authorities check container recovery. NDR, May 21, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ This is how harmful the dangerous goods are in the North Sea. NDR, January 7, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ "MSC Zoe" lost far more containers than expected. ORF, February 6, 2019, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Burkhard Ilschner: The accident of the “MSC Zoe” - an interim balance . In: Waterkant , issue 1-19, 34th year, issue 133 from March 2019, ISSN 1611-1583 , pp. 12-16.
- ^ Interim investigation report. (PDF; 2.2 MB) In: ndr.de. December 12, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Fishermen are increasingly collecting rubbish from the North Sea. NDR, March 25, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
- ^ "MSC Zoe": 45 cubic meters of flotsam on Borkum. NDR, January 6, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Volker Kölling: MSC Zoe: You want to retrieve containers - and fish for rubbish. In: butenunbinnen.de . March 3, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ "MSC Zoe": poison container recovered near Borkum. NDR, April 4, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Disaster “MSC Zoe”: Container search stopped. NDR, September 17, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
- ↑ GDV.de June 21, 2019: Risk management on container ships
- ↑ Equasis homepage (English)
- ↑ grosstonnage homepage (English)