Chinese shipyard launches tenth bulker of DCV36 project for VBTH
Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding Co. on May 22, 2012 held a launching and naming ceremony for the multipurpose dry cargo vessel of DCV36 Project. The 5,039DWT ship was named Yashma (Jasper) and is the final vessel of a series of Project DCV36 ten newbuilds ordered by VBTH, Marine Engineering Bureau said. The keel of the tenth vessel Yashma (Jasper) was laid on February 28, 2011.
The Customer – Volga-Balt Transportation Holding (VBTH) is a majority owned division of Universal Cargo Logistics Holding, consolidating several Russian shipping (North-Western Shipping Company, Volga Shipping, VF Tanker, etc.), stevedoring and shipbuilding assets (Okskaya Shipyard, BorRemFlot, etc.).
The innovative DCV36 project vessels with increased deadweight were designed for transportation of seaborne general and bulk cargo, including 20’ and 40’ containers with height of up to 9.5 foot (including reefer containers), metal, grain, timber, coal, bulk and heavy-lift cargo, dangerous goods of 1.4S, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.1, 8, 9, and Annex "B" to the International Code of Safety for High Speed Craft. The vessel project was designed to the class of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping KM AUT1 Ice 3. The DCV36 project bulker has unlimited navigation area.
The DCV36 bulker is a modern single-deck, single-hold and single-screw motor ship of unrestricted navigation area (versus the same class vessels of projects RSD44 RSD49), which has forecastle and poop, aft based deckhouse and engine room, double bottom and double sides in cargo holds area, removable grain bulkheads with bulb fore and transom aft ends, with Cargotec’s side-rolling hatch covers, with bow thruster.
Ship’s general characteristic:
LOA - 89.96 m;
Beam - 14.5 m;
Depth - 7.5 m;
LWL - 6.4 m, the draft DWT – 5026 t.
Cargo hold dimensions - 60 x 11.5 x 9.2 m, which allows placement of 3 tiers of 9.5-foot containers, and also provides for transportation of large-sized cargoes. Cargo holds capacity - 6230 cbm. Double bottom is designed for distributed load intensity of 14.0 t / sqm and for bucket grab usage.
The DCV36 project lead ship "Amethyst" was laid down at the Chinese shipyard on November 16, 2009, launched on May 17, 2010 and commissioned on April 22, 2011. VBTH commissioned the sixth bulker of the project (the M/V Nephrite) on April 10, 2012.