Bergeland is one bulk carrier, property of Bergesen d.y. ASA, which is the one, who substitutes the largest bulk carrier in the world – Berge Stahl, while it is on dock. Bergeland was registered in the Stavanger in Norway, and sailing under IMO number 9002776. The vessel is alittle bit smaller that the giant Berge Stahl, but not so small, because it is second largest bulk carrier owned by Bergesen d.y. ASA and one of the largest vessels of the world. The deadweight of Bergeland is 322,941 metric tons, the length is 338 meters and the width is 55 meters. The ore carrier has a draught of 23 meters. These measurements are pretty large even for such vessel like Bergeland. This giant was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. in South Korea. This is ship-yard with very different and opposite reputation, but I think that bulk carriers built from them are some of the most qualited and most safety vessels of the world. Bergeland is designed to transport iron ore all around the world, but operates mostly in the regular route from the mines “Companhia Vale do Rio Doce” in the eastern part of the Amazone, Brazil to the Europort of Rotterdam, the largest European port and 4th largest world port.
T can guarantee about this, because I know this port very good, and it is really large. But now our issue is not about the port, but for the vessel Bergeland, so its quay is not so far away from the entrance, because even largest tankers can vesit this port far away from the center, but near the entrance of the port, where with barges the cargo is transported to its destination. Just for example the iron ore from Bergeland is transported to ThyssenKrupp and Huttenwarke Krupp Mannesmann is Germany, where are situated some of the largest steel mills in Europe. Bergeland is vessel built in 1992. It is pretty old, built in time, when a large ship building is in the progress. The vessel is designer with single hull and automatic hatches. This technology is not so new, and not so ecological, because most of the ships built nowadays are with double hulls, to prevent water pollution. The cargo holds are seven, four long and three short. This is because the ore carriers cannot use the full cargo space, but they are using the full deadweight. The cargo is very heavy and this decrease the center of weight, to be on lower level and the ship becomes some kind of leaden toy soldier, which cannot overturn, but there is a high rolling. This is not good for the mechanisms, crew and ship construction. That is why the main idea of engineers is to increase the position of weight center by height and with this to decrease the stability of the ship (not so much of course) and to increase ship’s strength. And I think Bergeland is the vessel with good ratio between ship’s stability and strength.
