P&O Nedlloyd Michelangelo
The vessel P&O Nedlloyd Michelangelo is one of the newly build vessels in the mass production of Asians ship-yards. The vessel is one large container carrier with length of 335 meters and a beam of 42.80 meters. The draught of the vessels is 24.40 meters and the draft, while the ship is fully loaded is 14.00 meters. The ship was finished in the year 2005 by the famous ship-builder Ishikajima-Harima Heavy Industries CO Ltd Inc, which is a company situated in Japan, which is specialized in construction of large container ships. P&O Nedlloyd Michelangelo is operated by the company Michelangelo Star Schifffahrtsgesellschaft MBH Co. KG. This is large company for logistic and maritime transport of container cargos. The vessel P&O Nedlloyd Michelangelo is one of the pearls in the crown of P&O Nedlloyd B.V., Germany, because this vessel is not only new, but also very large as you can imagine. The deadweight of the ship is 97,517 metric tons and the Gross tonnage is 94,724 gross tons. This is giving Maersk Sarniaenough capacity of the vessel to carry 8,450 TEU.
The vessel is very good designed and has some innovations, which can be seen to some of the older ships built by this ship-owner, just like innovation in propulsion system, engine CO2 emissions and of course in cover of the steel. This is increasing the speed and decreasing the water resistant, which allows to the vessel to sail with high speed in lower fuel consumption. The main engine of P&O Nedlloyd Michelangelo is DU-Sulzer 12RT-flex 96C, which has a full power of 61,900kW x 94.0rpm. As each container ship, P&O Nedlloyd Michelangelo also needs of high speed and builders allowed to the vessel to sail with 24.6 knots cruising (or economy speed). The maximum speed of the vessel under ballast is 26.1 knots. That is incredible for even container ship.P&O Nedlloyd Michelangelo is one of the best ships built by the builder IHI Marine United Inc. The vessel was finished on 15th of June, 2005 and this was the beginning of one long story about P&O Nedlloyd Michelangelo. The ship is high qualitied and that is why she is certified by Germanisher Lloyd Register. That was the vessel property of P&O Nedlloyd B.V., Germany, which we introduced in this section. Today this vessel is known as Maersk Sarnia, because it was chartered by the famoust company for container carrying.
Ship's Facts
Name: P&O Michelangelo
Type: Container Vessel
Lenght: 335 m
Beam: 42.80 m
Draught: 24.40 m
Draft: 14.00 m
Deadweight: 97,517 m.t.
Gross Tonnage: 94,724 GT
Capacity: 8,450 TEU
Speed: 24.6 kn
Engine: DU-Sulzer 12RT96C
Power: 61,900 kW
