The RMS Kiel was the first Futura Carrier coaster. The construction of the ship was funded by the Federal Environment Ministry with 2.2 million euros from the "Investment program to reduce environmental pollution", about a third of the total investment in the new building. The shipowner of the ship, which was initially chartered for three years to the Duisburg-based company Rhein-, Maas- und See-Schiffahrtkontor (RMS) , was BWK Schiffsinvest MS RMS Kiel .
The keel of the ship was laid on June 4, 2005 at the ConMar shipyard in Brake . After the company had to file for bankruptcy in early May 2006 , the completion of the ship was delayed. It was only on 5 October 2006 which took place Launched in which the ship got stuck first half on the running track. To avoid damaging the hull , the ship was pulled from the runway by two tugs . Then it was transported to Wilhelmshaven with the help of a tug , where it was completed by the company Navitek Schiffsreparaturen by May 7, 2007.
The christening of the ship took place on January 17th, 2007 in Wilhelmshaven. Godmother was Gabriele Hakemann, the wife of the managing director of the Kiel company New Logistics, which had developed the Futura carrier concept. The ship was put into service in mid-May 2007. However, the ship was only allowed to sail in the coastal area of the Baltic Sea as it was not yet equipped with a free-fall lifeboat. The retrofitting took place at the end of 2007 at Gebr. Friedrich-Werft in Kiel, for which the ship had to be lengthened at the stern from originally 97.50 m to 99.90 m. Afterwards, the ship could also be used in the England voyage, as originally planned.
The Federal Audit Office found that the ship never met the expectations placed on it. It is therefore considered a "funding flop".
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The ship had two holds . In addition to general cargo and bulk goods, it could also load containers . The container capacity was 218 TEU , 88 of which could be loaded in the room and 130 on deck .
In contrast to the inland tanker Till Deymann of the same type, the living quarters of the ship's crew were housed in superstructures on the aft deck and not in the hull.
Whereabouts of the ship
The ship was sold before the end of the charter in 2008 and renamed Futura Carrier on May 14, 2008 . Then it was used under new management under the Slovak flag with its home port in Bratislava . 2014 was in Wilhelmshaven at the Grand Harbor nearby Wiesbaden Bridge launched . At the beginning of 2015 it was bought by a Turkish shipping company and put back into service under the Panamanian flag. The intended shipping areas were the Mediterranean and the Black Sea . That same year, the ship was at the in Dutch Goes resold based company Zandhandel Faasse.
Conversion to a hopper excavator
Zandhandel Faasse had the hull of the ship shortened by 20 meters at the Scheepswerf Reimerswaal. The ship was then converted into a hopper dredger at the Scheepswerf Kooiman shipyard in Zwijndrecht . During the renovation, the ship was also equipped with a new wheelhouse from which the ship can be steered in one-man operation.
At the beginning of July 2017 the ship, renamed in Scald - an old, Germanic word that means "shallow water" - was delivered.
Two diesel generators each with 128 kW output (160 kVA apparent power ) and an emergency generator with 76 kW output (95 kVA apparent power) are available for power generation.
literature
Futura Carrier : The sea-river ship of the future is already on the Helgen. In: Duisport Magazin. 2/2005, pp. 32–33 ( PDF file )
Forward-looking freighter has a future in shallow water. In: The Naval Architect. September 2005, pp. 56–63 ( PDF file )
