Ships of the Year

The Fedora is the third of eleven ultra large car carrier sisters.
Master Sven-Åke Andersson likes the setup of the bridge.
The auxiliary engines come from Man B&W. The Fedora has 13 decks, several of them hoistable.
6.5 metres. Minimum free height on decks
for private cars is 1.70 metres.
Hoisting of the decks is not done with
hydraulics or wires as on earlier ships, but
by a kind of giant jack.
“It’s a lorry chassis equipped with a scissors
lift. We have two of these on board”,
says Sven-Åke Andersson.
The engine department
From the engine department’s control
room you can supervise and control everything
with the automation system from
Kongsberg. Pumps and engines can easily
be started or stopped via computers and
touch panels.
The electric panel on the Fedora is located
in a separate room and not inside the
control room. To reach the electric panel
you must pass the sound lock and main
engine room.
“It’s better for our health not to have the
electric panel and all the magnetic fields
inside the control room.”
Wallenius has chosen not to equip the
main engine or the two auxiliary engines,
all delivered from Man B&W, with catalysts
or so-called secondary technology to
reduce the NOx emissions.
We can accommodate 28
or 30 persons on board,
that’s great because we
have room for repairers
and cadets.
“We don’t have that kind of equipment,
but the engines show low NOx values and
we are running at lower sulphur content”,
says Sven-Åke Andersson.
“We didn’t want to install catalysts, in
particular not on the main engine, due to
all the urea that we would have to store on
board”, says the Technical Director at Wallenius
Marine, Christer Nygren.
The vessel is however equipped with the
FEDORA
SHIPS oF THE YEAR
Type: LCTC (Large Car Truck Carrier)
Built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine
Engineering, South korea, for Wallenius
Lines AB, Sweden. Newbuilding no 4446.
IMo no 9332949.
Class: Lloyd’s Register of Shipping: +100
A1 Vehicle Carrier, movable decks, deck No.
1, 3, 5 and 8 strengthened for Roll on Roll
off cargo + LMC, UMS and IWS.
L o a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227.8 m
Beam, mld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.26 m
Draught, design/max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.5 m
Gross tonnage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,583
DWT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,386
Capacity of car units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,000
Capacity of cars/buses . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,484/468
Machinery:
Main engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B&W 7S60MC-C
BHP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,490
at rpm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
PureBallast system, developed by Wallenius
in cooperation with Alfa Laval. It is a viable
ballast water treatment system designed
to prevent micro-organisms being moved
from one region to another.
fredrik davidsson
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