TI-class supertanker
Fore the Hellespont Alhambra
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The four sister ships of the Hellespont Alhambra class are the largest double-walled oil tanker in the world. With 380 meters long and 68 meters wide, they are 19 meters long and 7.5 meters wider than the Allure of the Seas, the largest passenger ship in the world.
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The type of ship Hellespont Alhambra the ULCC tanker series was completed on 7 March 2002 by the shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Geoje, South Korea for the Hamburg shipping company Hellespont after 18 months of construction. 2004, the tanker Overseas Shipholding Group of the bought and renamed TI Asia and sailed under the flag of Belgium under the management of OSG International in New York. Since late 2008, the ship passes under the flag of the Marshall Islands. TI stands for Tankers International, a ship pool for super tankers ( VLCC ) and (V Plus) tankers.
The TI Asia mostly drove the default route between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico to the delivery of crude oil to U.S. refineries. Loaded she had to go to Africa ( Cape of Good Hope ), in ballast she could use on the return trip the Suez Canal and save about ten days travel time. The tanker can very quickly be loaded and unloaded, the new high-performance pumps and pipes were installed to minimize demurrage. Another special feature is the ability to load or delete different products simultaneously. For a particularly elaborate piping system was installed.
The ships are equipped with an inert gas system: In the cavities of the double wall is a product obtained from engine exhaust gases non-flammable inert gas " bunkered ", which flows at the discharge of the cargo in the cargo spaces and suppressed by oxygen displacement is a potential inflammation. In order to keep the heating of the vessel low, the entire hull located above water, sunlight reflecting color is applied in a white, since a higher temperature of the cargo leads to greater losses of evaporation.
The loaded -propelled tanker would move forward further in machine failure for another 30 minutes.
Modifications to the FSO
2009, the TI Asia was renamed FSO Asia and rebuilt at the Dubai Drydocks Shipyard for floating storage and transfer station ( FSO ). After taking the test run on 17 November 2009 at the oilfield Al Shareen Qatar before problems arose, whereupon the FSO Asia had to return to the conversion yard on 4 December.
Even the sister ship TI Africa, built as the Hellespont Metropolis, was rebuilt at the Dubai Drydocks Shipyard for FSO Africa.