Visborg (ship)

Visborg

Ship data flag  Sweden Ship type RoPax ship class SF 1650 Callsign SMLT home port Visby Owner Rederi AB Gotland Shipping company Destination Gotland Shipyard Guangzhou Shipyard International, Guangzhou Build number 14121001 Order June 23, 2014 Keel laying December 10, 2015 baptism December 8, 2018 Launch 18th November 2016 takeover December 14, 2018

Ship dimensions and crew length 199.99 m ( Lüa ) 183.6 m ( Lpp ) width 31.2 m Side height 9.3 m Draft Max. 6.4 m measurement 32,447 GT, 11,312 GT

Machine system machine 4 × Wärtsilä 12V50DF dual-fuel engines Machine performance 46,800 kW (63,630 hp) Top speed 28.5 kn (53 km / h) propeller 2 × controllable pitch propellers

Transport capacities Load capacity 4636 dw running track meters 1850 m Permitted number of passengers 1650 Pax cabins 98 Vehicle capacity 500 cars

Others Classifications DNV GL Registration numbers IMO 9763655

The Visborg is a RoPax ship that has been in service between the Swedish mainland and the island of Gotland by the Swedish shipping company Destination Gotland since March 2019 . The ship is named after a fortress in Visby .

General

The ship was commissioned on June 23, 2014 from Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) in Guangzhou, China , and was originally due to be delivered in 2017. The delivery was postponed several times due to delays in completion. The ship was christened on December 8, 2018 in Nanshan and the delivery to the shipping company on December 14, 2018. The transfer trip to Sweden took the Visborg via Hong Kong , Singapore , Durban and the Canary Islands to Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona , where the ship was on January 23 Arrived in 2019.

The Visborg has been in service between the home port of Visby and the mainland ports of Nynäshamn and Oskarshamn since March 28, 2019 .

In addition, when the Visborg was ordered, an option for a second newbuilding, the sister ship Thjelvar , was agreed. The ship was ordered in June 2015 with delivery in 2018 and it was launched on July 24, 2017. The ship was finally delivered on December 30, 2019.

drive

The drive consists of four Wärtsilä 12V50DF dual-fuel engines that can be operated with both diesel fuel and liquid natural gas (LNG) . They each act with 11,700  kW on two controllable pitch propellers and give the Visborg a speed of up to 28.5  knots . The Visborg is supplied with LNG by the company Nauticor.

Web links

Commons : Visborg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ship details Visborg. DNV GL (English). 
• Micke Asklander: M / S Visborg. Facta om Fartyg (Swedish). 

Footnotes

1. ↑ Destination Gotland's VISBORG To Be Delivered In July. Ferry Shipping News, April 19, 2018, accessed May 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ M / S Visborg christened for Destination Gotland. Ferries currently, December 14, 2018, accessed May 30, 2019 . 
3. ^ Micke Asklander: M / S Thjelvar. Facta om Fartyg, accessed May 25, 2019 (Swedish). 
4. ↑ Destination Gotland orders new ferry in China. November 14, 2014, accessed December 28, 2014 . 
5. ↑ AB Gotland orders another new LNG building. June 25, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 . 
6. ↑ DNV GL: Thjelvar. Retrieved February 2, 2020 . 
7. ↑ www.veus-shipping.com from February 2018