MV City of St. Petersburg
IMO no. 9473456
The City of St. Petersburg is a car carrier for around 2000 vehicles, 2010 by the shipyard Kyokuyo Shipyard to the Canadian company Fair Wind Navigation SA was delivered. Bereedert is the ship from the Dutch company Euro Marine Carrier BV which belongs to the Japanese Nissan Motor Car Carrier.
Technical Description
The City of St. Petersburg, which is registered in Panama, was built by the Japanese shipyard Kyokuyo Shipyard Corporation under the hull number 493 and delivered on December 22, 2010. The ship is almost 140 m long, 22.4 m wide and had a side height of 24.45 m. The survey of 21,143 GT, capacity 5,000 tdw The ship has four watertight compartments, 12 decks, and a maximum draft of 6.5 m.
It is driven ship from a seven-cylinder diesel engine manufacturer MAN B & W, which was built by Hitachi Zosen Corporation at its plant in Innoshima in Japan under license. The engine has a power output of around 7,000 kW. The ship thus reaches a nominal speed of 16.5 knots.
Particularity
The ship is characterized by an unusual, streamlined rounded bow shape from these types of vessels otherwise see more like " pointed shoe boxes ". This shape will result in a reduction of the wind resistance of around 50 %. It is expected that in order to 800 tonnes of fuel can be saved annually. This results in a reduction of about 2,500 tons of CO2 emissions.
The " eco-friendly " design of the ship is part of the environmental program of Nissan. Nissan intends to use the vessel is primarily for the transportation of Nissan Leaf electric cars, which have been assembled in the UK Sunderland plant in the ports of the Baltic and North Seas.