L to R: Arnout Damen (CCO, Damen Shipyards Group) Ruud van der Stroom (Damen sales supervisor offshore, Damen Shipyards Group), Otto Shikongo (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, De Beers Marine Namibia), Willy Mertens (Chief monetary supervisor, De Beers Marine Namibia), Michael Curtis (Head of the Addition Mining Vessel 3 Project, De Beers Marine).
Damen Shipyards Group as well as De Beers Marine Namibia (Pty) Ltd (Debmarine Namibia) have actually noted the begin of building of a brand-new ruby mining vessel with a steel reducing event held at the Damen Mangalia shipyard inRomania
According to Debmarine Namibia (a joint endeavor in between De Beers as well as the Government of Namibia), the vessel is anticipated to set you back $468 million as well as is the biggest ever before solitary financial investment in the aquatic ruby sector. On conclusion, the vessel is anticipated to include 500,000 carat weights each year to Debmarine Namibia’s manufacturing, a rise of about 35% on present manufacturing.
At 177 meters (577 feet) long, the brand-new vessel will certainly be somewhat bigger than the present biggest vessel in the Debmarine Namibia fleet, Mafuta (174 meters, 571 feet). Built to a Marin Teknikk style, the MT 6027 will certainly be one of the most highly sophisticated aquatic ruby healing vessel worldwide. On- board functions consist of a vibrant placing system (DP2) based upon a seven-thruster propulsion system powered by 6 generators of 3,230 eKW each.
Damen states that the order is just one of a number of possibilities created by its Mangalia shipyard.The backyard has the biggest ability of all Damen’s backyards, with a total amount of 3 graving drydocks approximately 60 m in size as well as 1.6 kilometres overall berthing area. The bigger ability has actually enabled Damen to handle bigger building jobs, such as a 148 m RO/RO vessel, a 155 m lengthy cruise ship vessel, as well as this brand-new 177 m offshore extracting vessel for De Beers.
“So far, Damen’s newbuild focus has mainly been on standardization and in-house or own design vessels, along with various types of support and service vessels built for the offshore market,” states Damen sales supervisor offshore Ruud van derStroom “However, the facilities in Mangalia allowed us to respond positively to De Beers Marine Namibia’s newbuild enquiry: an engineered-to-order project with vessel dimensions beyond that built by Damen ever before.”
