China: SF Shipyard Delivers New Bulk Carrier to POLSTEAM Company

On November 25th, delivery and acceptance documents for 1#16.900 DWT BC (Hull No.SF080101), the first one among eight sister vessels being built for POLSTEAM Company by SF shipyard, was successfully signed.

This vessel is the first of eight sister vessels contracted between Polsteam Company and SF shipyard.

The vessel has a single screw motor ship with B type freeboard,fitted with one controlled pitch left-handed propeller driven by low speed diesel engine 5S50MC-C, suitable for operation on heavy fuel oil up to 700 cSt at 50℃. The ship has five cargo holds, engine room and accommodation aft,transom stern,bulbous bow,raked stem,one streamlined rudder with Costa Buld and one bow thruster 600kW. The ship is designed and built according to the rules requirements and under survey of the ABS and the Class Notation equivalent to 100A1 Bulk Carrier, BC=A, ESP, IWS, LI, Ice Class 1C, BWMP(S or S + F); LMC, UMS, SCM, NAV1.

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World Maritime News Staff, December 1, 2011; Image: SF shipyard