| January
11, 2006 |
| Delivery
of Guangzhou Highway Car Carrier |
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Kobe,
January 11, 2006 - Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation
delivered the Guangzhou Highway pure car carrier
(PCC), with a capacity of 5,000 cars, to River
Spring Corporation yesterday at Nantong COSCO
KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. (NACKS) in
Nantong, China. The carrier, identified as
Kawasaki hull No. 1555, is the third built
at NACKS.
The 179.99 m long, roll-on/roll-off PCC has
12 decks, of which three are movable. They
can be lifted up or lowered from the ceiling
to accommodate mixed loading of different
types of vehicles, including buses and trucks.
There are two rampways to facilitate the loading
and unloading of large cars driven to/from
ports.
In an effort to make the ship more eco-friendly,
the carrier is powered by an electronically
controlled ME engine that optimizes fuel injection
patterns and exhaust valve opening/closing
timing, by allowing the operator to select
either an economy mode that reduces fuel consumption
or an emission mode that reduces exhaust emissions. |
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