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The Ultimate Container Carrier (UCC) is a type of container ship without hatch, developed by the shipping company Nedlloyd , with a capacity of 3560 and 4112 TEU . The seven UCC ships were the first large container ships to use this hold concept.
In 1981 Nedlloyd took over the Dutch heavy lift shipping company Mammoet . This played a major role in the development of the so-called dock ships , which are designed for the transport of large bulky goods in an open hold without hatch covers . During the construction of the heavy lift dock ship Happy Buccaneer in 1983, a ship of this type was delivered for the first time, the hold dimensions of which were also optimized for the transport of containers. Since the construction of ships without hatch covers is not provided for in the International Freeboard Ordinance, the harmlessness of such ship designs first had to be proven.
After further planning in the 1980s, Nedlloyd finally ordered seven Ultimate Container Carriers in 1990 from the Japanese shipyards Mitsubishi Harima Heavy Industries and Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries. In the same year the latter delivered the world's first open-top container ship, the Bell Pioneer .
The series was manufactured in the years 1990 to 1994 in seven units, five smaller Panamax ships of the type UCC 3100 with around 3500 TEU each and two slightly longer and wider units of the type UCC 4000 with a little over 4100 TEU (in later use one slightly higher number of TEUs). The ships were initially used in Nedlloyd's worldwide liner service, after merging with the British shipping company P&O in December 1996 in the joint network of the British-Dutch joint venture P&O Nedlloyd. Later in 2004, the Danish shipping company Maersk took over P & O-Nedlloyd, whereupon the ships were sold. But they were chartered back from Maersk and were in service (partly renamed) with Maersk until 2013. From the end of 2013 the first units of the series were scrapped.
The ships
Ultimate container carrier
Building name
Type
Shipyard / construction number
IMO number
delivery
Renaming and whereabouts
Nedlloyd Asia
UCC 3100
Ishikawajima / 3007
8915665
December 9, 1991
2014 Cashel , arrived in Chittagong for scrapping on January 28, 2014 and stranded there on February 4
Nedlloyd Europe
UCC 3100
Mitsubishi / 1184
8915691
December 1991
2014 Dabat , scrapped in Alang from March 2014
Nedlloyd America
UCC 3100
Ishikawajima / 3008
8915677
February 28, 1992
2013 Ekali , arrived in Alang for scrapping on January 23, 2014 and stranded there on January 31
Nedlloyd Africa
UCC 3100
Mitsubishi / 1185
8915706
March 1992
2013 Baltario , scrapped in Alang from March 2014
Nedlloyd Oceania
UCC 3100
Ishikawaijma / 3009
8915689
April 28, 1992
2013 Gato , arrived in Alang for scrapping on January 16, 2014 and stranded there on January 19
Nedlloyd Hong Kong
UCC 4000
Ishikawahima / 3014
9001253
February 18, 1994
2006 Maersk Miami , 2013 Hemol , arrived in Alang for scrapping on January 23, 2014 and stranded there on January 30
Nedlloyd Honshu
UCC 4000
Mitsubishi / 1187
9001318
February 1995
2013 Kadik , arrived in Alang for scrapping on January 15, 2014 and stranded there on January 18
Data: Equasis, large tonnage
literature
JM Huisman, RK Hansen: Design Philosophy and Operational Experience of the Open Top Far East Container Liners of Nedlloyd . In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society . tape86 . Springer Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-540-56446-2 .
John Lingwood: NEDLLOYD EUROPA: containers without hatch covers . In: Significant Ships of 1991 . The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, London 1992, ISBN 0-903055-13-9 , pp.74/75 .
JM Huisman, H. Vermeer: New developments in containership design . in SWZ 1-1991. 1991.
Brian J. Cudahy: Box boats . How container ships changed the world. Fordham University press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8232-2568-2 .
