The Orange Blossom was a special tanker designed as a fruit juice tanker . It was the world's first ship to be built exclusively for the transport of fruit juice from Brazil to Europe and North America . The ship, whose name translated means orange blossom , belonged to the Brazilian company Cutrale .
The ship was at the shipyard Trosvik Versted in on July 30, 1984 Brevik , laid the keel . The launch took place on December 20, 1984, the delivery on April 19, 1985. The Orange Blossom was registered in Monrovia and sailed under the Liberian flag . It belonged to the Adriatic Reefer Corp. Inc in Monrovia and was designed by ATLANSHIP in Switzerland bereedert . In June 2015 the ship was renamed Blossom , brought under the Palau flag and sold to the company Opes Shipping in Chelmsford . On June 18, 2015, the ship arrived in Alang for demolition , where it was scrapped by the Shree Ram Group on June 20.
Technical specifications
The ship was 145 meters long, 21.5 meters wide and had a maximum draft of about 10 meters. It was measured with 9984 GT / 2995 NRZ . The output of the five-cylinder diesel engine from Kawasaki -Burmeister & Wain was 6600 kW , the ship reached a speed of 19 knots .
The Orange Blossom was specially designed for the transport of orange juice . Around 12,000 tons of fruit juice concentrate could be transported in eight stainless steel tanks , which were mounted on the double floor of the ship . Chilled nitrogen was circulated in the space around the tanks in order to keep the contents at a constant temperature of minus 10 ° C during the entire journey. It took about 22 hours to fill the tanks with pre-cooled concentrate and to unload the cargo. Onshore, special cooling and processing systems were required, which are available in Europe in the port of Rotterdam and in the USA in the port of Boston .
The return trip to Brazil was carried out without cargo, the tanks being filled with nitrogen and further cooled. This made it possible to avoid expensive tank cleaning that only had to be carried out during inspections and maintenance work.
literature
Alfred Dudszus and Alfred Köpcke: The great book of ship types. Steam ships, motor ships, marine technology from the beginnings of machine-driven ships to the present day. transpress Pietsch, Berlin Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-344-00374-7 , p. 134.
