Santa R class
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The ship class , known as the Santa-R-Class or also as the Albatross-Class , is a series of seven cargo ships that were commissioned and financed by the Hamburg shipping company Claus-Peter Offen and the Hamburg issuing house MPC Capital and today the ship finance house Ship Finance International belong.
The refrigerated container ships had the largest number of refrigerated container spaces in the world when they were built .
history
The Santa R series consists of seven structurally identical Panmax full container ships with a capacity of 4112 TEU each, which were ordered in 2000 by the Hamburg shipping company Claus-Peter Offen and delivered in the course of 2002. Three other ships of the same type, Contship Aurora , Contship Australis and Contship Borealis , were built by the South Korean Daewoo shipyard for the Contship Containerlines shipping company . Together, the ten ships form the so-called Albatross class.
They are designed as fast reefer container ships with a capacity of 1,300 electrical connections for integrated reefer containers, thus replacing the reefer container ships Dole Chile and Dole Columbia , each with 990 reefer container connections, as the former largest of their kind. The pure refrigerated transport capacity per Santa-R ship corresponds roughly to that of the largest conventional refrigerated ships currently in service .
A 9RTA96C-B two-stroke diesel engine with almost 51,500 kW produced by the shipyard under a Sulzer license helps the ships achieve their high service speed of 25.1 knots. In order to be able to provide the necessary energy to operate the large number of refrigerated containers, each of the ships has five diesel generators with a total output of 10,000 kW. A bow thruster with 1600 kW is used for safe docking and casting off.
Working time
When construction began, the shipping company had a fixed eight-year charter contract for the ships with the shipping company P&O Nedlloyd (PONL). In addition, there were two extension options for a further seven or five years. PONL used the ships in an eastbound liner service around the world between Europe, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. Together with the three other Albatross-class ships, the Santa-R ships took on another service with a high proportion of refrigerated cargo, which was previously served by ships with porthole refrigerated container technology. Among other things, a quartet of Blue Star Line ships built for ACT in 1971/72 , the America Star , Queensland Star , Melbourne Star and Sydney Star , each with 550 reefer spaces, was replaced. The new P&O Nedlloyd Remuera replaced the old Remuera in Auckland in March 2002 . After P&O Nedlloyd was taken over by Maersk , some of the ships continued to be employed under the Maersk flag until 2009/10 and were later used by several other charterers such as Hapag-Lloyd or Hamburg Süd . The main shipping area of the ships, the Australia and New Zealand service, has also shifted despite the high proportion of refrigerated containers. This is how the South American west coast was approached.
After the financial situation of the ship holding companies got into difficulties in 2010, the shareholders injected more money in 2011. After the ships continued to fail to operate viable, the holding company MS Santa-R Schiff mbH & Co. KG and the seven one-way shipping companies had to file for insolvency on November 4, 2013. In 2014, the Norwegian / Bermudian ship financier Ship Finance International (SFL) took over the seven units that have been chartered by the Swiss shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Company since then .
The ships
| The Santa R-class motor cargo ships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | IMO number |
Keel laying, launching, delivery |
Shipyard / construction number | measurement | Later names and whereabouts |
| P&O Nedlloyd Remuera | 9227297 | August 31, 2001 November 11, 2001 January 23, 2002 |
Samsung Heavy Industries, bunk / 1357 |
45,803 GRT 25,080 NRT |
Maersk Denia (2006) → Southampton Express (2007) → Santa Rafaela (2009) → MSC Anisha R. (2013) → underway |
| P&O Nedlloyd Encounter | 9227302 | November 12, 2001 January 19, 2002 April 11, 2002 |
Samsung Heavy Industries, bunk / 1358 |
45,803 GRT 25,080 NRT |
Mærsk Dacartur (2006) → Mærsk Darcartur (2006) → Mærsk Decatur (2006) → Santa Rebecca (2010) → MSC Katya R. (2013) → in progress |
| P&O Nedlloyd Botany | 9227314 | December 10, 2001 March 3, 2002 May 28, 2002 |
Samsung Heavy Industries, bunk / 1359 |
45,803 GRT 25,080 NRT |
Mærsk Dunafare (2005) → Cap Ricarda (2010) → Santa Ricarda (2013) → MSC Zlata R. (2013) → in progress |
| P&O Nedlloyd Pegasus | 9227326 | March 5, 2002 May 12, 2002 August 8, 2002 |
Samsung Heavy Industries, bunk / 1360 |
45,803 GRT 25,077 NRT |
Sydney Express (2003) → Mærsk Dominica (2006) → Cap Roberta (2010) → Santa Roberta (2013) → MSC Vidisha R. (2013) → in progress |
| P&O Nedlloyd Palliser | 9227338 | May 14, 2002 August 3, 2002 October 10, 2002 |
Samsung Heavy Industries, bunk / 1361 |
45,803 GRT 25,077 NRT |
Mærsk Damascus (2006) → Santa Romana (2010) → MSC Julia R. (2013) → in motion |
| Columbus New Zealand | 9227340 | June 17, 2002 September 14, 2002 November 26, 2002 |
Samsung Heavy Industries, bunk / 1362 |
45,803 GRT 25,077 NRT |
Maersk Duffield (2006) → Santa Rosanna (2010) → MSC Vaishnavi (2013) → MSC Whishnavi R. (2017) → MSC Vaishnavi R. (2013) → underway |
| P&O Nedlloyd Mairangi | 9244881 | June 27, 2002 October 21, 2002 December 20, 2002 |
Samsung Heavy Industries, bunk / 1363 |
45,803 GRT 25,077 NRT |
MSC Marbella (2006) → Maersk Denton (2010) → Santa Rufina (2010) → MSC Apeato (2013) → MSC Arushi R. (2017) → in progress |