Mv elan is a container feeder vessel of the sietas 168 type built by the sietas yard in hamburg.
Feeder vessel container capacity.
The capacity of a container ship is expressed in teu that is twenty foot equivalent units.
The 1000 cf is a cost efficient container feeder designed to accommodate the latest regulations in both container shipping and environmental protection.
The vessel is appreciated because of in particular her good loading capacity and flexibility and her large reefer container capacity.
Feeder vessels mainly collect shipping containers from different ports and transport them to central container terminals or transshipment hubs where they are loaded to bigger vessels for further transport.
In the meantime however the panama canal is large enough to allow ships with a draught of 15 20 metres to pass through.
Given a set of mother vessels and feeders and a storage yard divided into yard sections the feeder vessel management problem aims i to assign a working shift for feeders calling ii to determine the berthing position for feeders iii and to decide the yard sections for the storage of transshipment container.
One container feeder the mv evolution of 1 050 teu was involved.
Thanks to her high ice class the ensemble can be deployed in extreme conditions.
Besides this considerable expansion the shipping company has sold three of its vessels.
Feeder vessels are medium sized ships up to 3000 teu which carry between 300 and 1000 containers on average.
Since may 2005 the elan has been part of the jr shipping fleet.
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Since 2005 mv ensemble has been chartered out to a range of jr shipping s business relations within the container feeder market.
Feeder vessels or feeder ships are medium size freight ships in general a feeder designates a seagoing vessel with an average capacity of carrying 300 twenty foot equivalent units teu to 1000 teu feeders collect shipping containers from different ports and transport them to central container terminals where they are loaded to bigger vessels or for further transport by truck or rail into the.
Two four stroke diesel engines wärtsilä 9l46d 2x10 395kw drive a single cp propeller through a twin in single out reduction gear.
If the vessel is operating at low speed or in light ship conditions it can run just one engine.
The capacity of a panamax vessel is 6 300 teu.
However a panamax vessel is also larger than a feeder vessel and can have a draught of up to 12 04 metres.
