Recently, COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry (Zhoushan) successfully launched a 154,000 DWT shuttle tanker and cut steel for another one smoothly.
N787 is the 6th 154,000 DWT shuttle tanker built for Norwegian owner. Classed by DNV, the shuttle tanker has an overall length of 278.9 meters, a beam of 47 meters, a depth of 24.9 meters and a design draught of 16 meters. The shuttle tanker is equipped with DP2 power positioning control system and bow loading system.
Its ship energy efficiency design index meets the second phase of EEDI, and it adopts the design scheme of edium voltage enclosed busbar and variable frequency drive propellers to reduce the running time of the generator sets and achieve the purpose of energy-saving and consumption reduction, which makes it a shuttle tanker with the advantageous features of greenness, environmental protection and energy-saving.
On May 10th, COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry (Zhoushan) held a steel cutting ceremony for the 154,000 DWT shuttle tanker N1012.
