Vlissingen (ship)

**Vlissingen**
	Bunker ship Vlissingen in the port of Rotterdam (next to a peniche 36 meters long)
Ship data
flag	Netherlands
Ship type	Tanker
home port	Rotterdam
Owner	VT Minerals BV, Rotterdam
Shipping company	Verenigde Tankrederij
Shipyard	Shipyard Bodeswes
building-costs	10 million euros
Commissioning	April 10, 2003
Whereabouts	in motion
Ship dimensions and crew
length	134.61 m ( Lüa )
width	21.80 m
Draft	Max. 4.40 m
crew	5
Machine system
machine	3 × Caterpillar 3512 DI-TA
Machine ; performance	3,353 kW (4,559 hp)
Top ; speed	13.5 kn (25 km / h)
propeller	3 in Optima nozzles ; 2 × Veth-Jet 4-channel bow thruster ; 1 Veth-Jet 2-channel stern
Transport capacities
Load capacity	9297 dwt
Volume	10,700 m³, 14 tanks m³
Others
Registration ; numbers	ENI no. : 02325911

The Vlissingen is a double - hulled tanker that is used for bunkering seagoing vessels in the ARA ports (Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam).

The hull was built in Mykolaiv / Ukraine , and it was completed in the Netherlands at the Bodewes shipyard in Millingen am Rhein . The construction costs of the ship, which was commissioned on April 10, 2003 as the largest inland tanker in Europe, amounted to almost 10 million euros.

Further technical data

3 × Caterpillar 3512 DI TA main engines with 1120 kW at 1,600 rpm with ZF reverse gear 4.506: 1
3 × Caterpillar 3412 E-motors with 644 HP for bow and stern thrusters
2 × Caterpillar-3306-DI-TA generator sets
2 × Bornemann-W9.6-ZK135 loading and unloading pumps, each 1,000 m³ / h
2 × 1,136 kW oil heating boilers for heating the load
3 × propellers with Optima nozzles, 1,612 mm diameter.
2 × Veth-Jet -4-channel 1,300 mm bow thruster
1 × Veth-Jet -2-channel 1,200 mm stern thruster

The nautical equipment corresponds to the state of the art with two color radars , an autopilot and various radio and telephone equipment . The hydraulically lowerable wheelhouse has a width of 12.5 m and a floor area of 70 m². A 34 meter long, hydraulically operated bunker mast is installed on deck.

source

Informatie Binnenvaart, NL