Ocean Comet

Ocean Comet is one of the newly built Capesize bulk carriers. The ship was built in Imabari Shipyard & Works by Namura Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. in March 2008 with hull number 276. The vessel is new and modern and the deadweight of Ocean Comet is 176,943 metric tons. The vessel is property of Fair Wind Navigation S.A. The ship has overall length of 288.97 meters and length between perpendiculars 279.00 meters. Ocean Comet has beam of 45.00 meters, depth of 24.40 meters and a draft of 17.93 meters, when the ship is fully loaded. The ship is pretty large and the Gross Tonnage, which Ocean Comet has 89,603 GT. Ocean Comet is very interesting built bulk carrier, with new innovation technology for decreasing water resistance, to decrease fuel and lubricant oil consumption and increasing of productivity of propulsion system. The main engine of Ocean Comet is MAN B&W 6S70MC Mark VI with full power of 16,860 kW at 91.0 rpm. The ship can reach high speed 16.3 knots and the cruising speed is about 15.2 knots. The ship has a large cargo spaces divided into nine holds covered with nine hatches, five pairs of water ballast tanks, and fore peak tank , aft peak tank and the No.6 cargo holds that can be used as water ballast tank.
The hold are with cossed angles for easy and very useful discharging of the cargo into ports. This is used from many years in ship-building because such crossing increase the ship's stability and also allows faster dischrging fo the vessel. Ocean Comet is modern and very useful and profitable ship of Fair Wind Navigation S.A., which is designed to carry all kind of bulk cargoes. We already told that fuel consumption of the ship is reduced. The Namura flow Control Fin (NCF) and high-efficiency N-PAI NHV type propeller are also used for improved propulsion performance and fuel oil saving. This is very environmental and very efficient for the ship-owner and whole Maritime Transport. The ship is one real engineer wonder built and designed by Imari Shipyard & Works

date: 11th October, 2008

Ship's Facts
Name: Ocean Comet
Type: Bulk Carrier
Lenght: 288.97 m
Beam: 45.00 m
Depth: 24.40 m
Draft: 17.93 m
Deadweight: 176,943 m.t.
Gross Tonnage: 89,603 GT
Engine: MAN B&W
Year Built: 2008
Shipyard: Imabari
Speed: 15.2 kn