MT Vulcanus
The Vulcanus during the combustion of Agent Orange
- Erich Schroeder
- Vulcan I (1983-1990)
- Oragreen (1990-2004)
- Kotrando (since 2004)
IMO 5105295
The incinerator ship Vulcanus was used from 1972 to 1990 on waste incineration.
History
As dry cargo
The shipping company Richard Schroeder from Hamburg in 1955 ordered a dry cargo ship in the Hamburg Norderwerft Köser & Meyer. This was on November 10, 1955 under the hull number 818 general cargo freighter Erich Schröder from the stack. After sea trials from 29 December 1955, ship on January 17, 1956, delivered to the shipping company. Erich Schroeder was designed as a three island boat with achterem engine room and middle bridge construction. It had three hatches, the cargo gear consisted of a 25 -ton derrick and ten 5-ton derricks. In August 1962, the ship to the shipping company Richard Schröder KG was transferred to Hamburg and sold in February 1972, the Ocean Combustion Service NV in Rotterdam.
Use as waste incineration ship
The Dutch company was the ship from February 11, 1972 on the Rotterdam shipyard KA van Brink converted into a combustion vessel for chemical waste. In this case the ship is tanks for the transport of the waste to be incinerated, and two disposed on the stern of the vessel was equipped incinerators where took place the combustion of the waste at temperatures of 1300 to 1400 degrees Celsius. On September 15, 1972, the shipyard delivered the completed ship to the Vulcanus Shipping Pte. Ltd.. in Singapore from that set it as the Vulcan going. Was administered the ship by the Ocean Combustion Service, ship management took over the renowned German shipping company Steamship Company " Hansa " in Bremen. The ship was mainly used from Rotterdam in the North Sea, but also took on other missions. So disposed of the Vulcan 1977 in the South Pacific over eight million liters of the defoliant Agent Orange from the Vietnam War.
After the bankruptcy of the DDG Hansa on 18 August 1980, the Vulcan was further operated until 1983. In 1983, the ship received a completely new foredeck with facilities for the transport of chemical waste at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. The old bow was scrapped as of May 4 1983 Lien Ho Hsing Steel Enterprise Company in Kaohsiung. After the conversion to put the ship under the name Vulcanus I again to burn waste in driving. Growing opposition from environmental groups resulted in the third North Sea Conference of the North Sea countries in 1990 to the decision to ban the incineration of waste at sea 31 December 1991 law. The resolution was adopted by the OSPAR Commission on 23 June 1990. Then they sold the ship in the same year to the Danish shipping company Simonsen.
More career
The Rederiet M.H. Simonsen A.p.S. in Svendborg was the ship in 1990 as Oragreen on the Simonsen Tankers Ltd.. in a Nassau (Bahamas ) and had it rebuilt to the bunker tankers. By 2004, the ship remained at Simonsen, the ship in Dakar ( Senegal) was the Nigerian shipping company Kotram Nigeria Ltd. on 3 May 2004. passed in Lagos / Apapa, for which it is reported today as Kotrando. Remarkably, the ship appeared on September 27, 2005 improved with the old name Oragreen with a pirate attack off West Africa.