China: New NORDANAs Cargo Vessel ‘Ellensborg’ Finishes Sea Trials

Last wednesday, 20#12000DWT MPC, being built for Danish NORDANA company, came back from sea trial successfully and anchored at No.3 quay at Taizhou Sanfu shipyard. Its LOA is 138.5m, LPP 130.0m, moulded width 21.0m, moulded depth 11.0m with design draft 7.5m. This vessel would be delivered around middle of October as scheduled.

12000DWT MPC is the first export vessel of this series with unrestricted service which is built at Taizhou Sanfu Shipyard. The vessel is built of certified steel as a single screw with main deck，forecastle，bulbs bow and equipped with two units of 150T Crane，one unit of main engine Mak6M43，5400KW and classed to GL，reached the requirement of E3，which is for carriage of containers，coal，cement，grain，timber，steel coils etc，engine roon and all accommodation is arranged aft.

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Source: SF Shipyard, October 6, 2011.