Ferus Smit Shipyard Launches First ECOBOX Design [VIDEO]

On February 21, 2015, the multi-purpose cargo provider Nordana Sky was launched from Ferus Smit Shipyard in Leer, Germany. The Nordana Sky is the primary vessel in a sequence of six ECOBOX-design ships that can be delivered to Dutch shipowner, Symphony Shipping. She can be chartered out to the Danish delivery firm Nordana, and sail in her fleet after supply.

Vessel Particulars:

Main dimensions (Loa X B X T) 122.5 X 17.0 X 7.8 meters
105,00 DWT, 429,000 cubic toes of maintain quantity
Iceclass 1A with 3000 kW essential engine
A big single maintain of utterly field formed type
Large loading flooring space for undertaking cargoes, together with full movable tweendeck
2 X 80 tons cargo cranes.
Deckhouse positioned on foreship for higher safety of deck cargo and enabling to load outsized gadgets over the strict.
Open prime notation; crusing in all climate situations with out maindeck hatches to move giant undertaking cargoes with out top restrictions.
The Ferus Smit ECO bulbless Canoe sort bow, designed to scale back gas prices and higher sustained pace with wonderful sea preserving habits in harsh climate and sea state situations.
Propeller geared up with a duct for enhanced thrust at decrease speeds and discount of most put in propulsion energy

In early January, Symphony Shipping signed an order with Ferus Smit to construct and ship two DP2 ECOBOX-design multi-purpose cargo carriers. The two ships could have twin azimuthing thrusters aft and three tunnel thrusters ahead powered by a mixed diesel-direct and diesel-electric system totaling about 8,000 kW.