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DOUBLE-ENDED FERRY SKS 86<br />
Double - ended passenger car ferry<br />
SKS-86/NB 1543 contracted by<br />
Gdañsk Shiprepair Yard REMON-<br />
TOWA SA, Poland is currently being<br />
built at Northern Shipyard. The ship has<br />
been ordered by Norwegian owner Nor-<br />
Ferjer Volda A/S, a joint venture - Stavangerske<br />
and HSD set up to serve a new route<br />
between Volda and Folkstad in Norway<br />
from 1 January 2006. The 87-metre ferry<br />
will be delivered in December 2005 and<br />
operated at Norway fiord.<br />
It can carry 300 passengers and 85 cars<br />
or 8 trucks. The ship is to be built with symmetric<br />
hull and deckhouse of welded steel<br />
construction, a continuous car deck (main<br />
deck), diesel engines powered with azimuth<br />
thrusters on each end, side house on each<br />
side with upper deck for carrying of the cars,<br />
fixed ramps for loading/unloading on each<br />
end of the side house.<br />
On side, on each end, as continuation<br />
of side house decks, it is arranged a mooring<br />
deck. The Main deck - free deck – is<br />
to be dimensioned for trailers with load of<br />
15 tons on double wheeled axles. Side<br />
house decks and ramps are to be dimensioned<br />
for holding of 1,5 ton axle load on<br />
single wheels.<br />
The ferry will be propelled by six main<br />
engines 404 kW each, driving two azimuth<br />
thruster through belts connected to shaftlines.<br />
There will be fore and aft engine rooms<br />
with three main engines in each engi-<br />
DRAFT<br />
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MAIN PARTICULARS<br />
Contracted by Gdañsk Shiprepair Yard REMONTOWA SA<br />
Builder Northern Shipyard<br />
Home port: Ålesund<br />
Length over all app. 87,60 m<br />
Length on car deck app. 84,40 m<br />
Length between PP 78,00 m<br />
Breadth moulded 16,00 m<br />
Breadth over all 16,40 m<br />
Draught DnV, CWL app. 4,50 m<br />
Draught LWL app. 3,85 m<br />
Frame spacing 0,60 m<br />
ne room. It’s designed to achieve 13 knots<br />
at 3,3 m draught.<br />
Electric power will be generated by two<br />
gensets 295 KWe (in each engine room).<br />
The vessel will be equipped with foam extingushing<br />
system for cargo hold and water<br />
mist system for engine rooms. There are<br />
two passengers lounges on the main deck.<br />
PS lounge with 48 seats and SB lounge<br />
with kiosk and 70 seats. Passengers will<br />
be able to communicate between sides via<br />
perpendicular passage in midship. Modern<br />
Koppernes MES system with three stations<br />
on the main deck is provided for evacuation<br />
passengers. ECR is to be arranged<br />
on a tank top level.<br />
The ship was launched sideways on<br />
19 th of July 2005 at Northern Shipyard.<br />
REMONTOWA Group<br />
Norwegian and Polish yards competed<br />
for the contract. The deal is a further boost<br />
for Remontowa Group, best known<br />
worldwide for its repair and conversion<br />
operations but increasingly focused on<br />
ship construction.<br />
The hull, machinery and electrical installation<br />
will be built and installed under<br />
special survey and in accordance with the<br />
Rules and Regulation of Det Norske Veritas<br />
for notation: + DNV * 1A1-R4-Class Ferry<br />
B-PWDK-E0-RP<br />
The vessel will be registered in Norway<br />
and will comply with the requirements of the<br />
Norwegian Maritime Directorate (NMD), The<br />
Flag Authority NMD TRADING AREA 2.<br />
September 2005
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