For a decade now, the leading Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has been interested in the philosophy of double-skins for larger classes of bulk carrier. As noted in our March 2004 issue, page 28, two European companies, Louis Dreyfus, from France, and the Greek operator Anangel Maritime Service, have placed orders for a series of Capesize ships with double side-skins at this yard. Two other ships have since been ordered by Korea Line. The first of these new-generation designs is the first of a quartet of 171,900dwt hulls for Anangel, named Anangel Innovation. This ship has the typical nine holds of a bulker of this size, with seven wing and double-bottom tanks port and starboard for water ballast. Heavy fuel is carried in engineroom side tanks and in the double bottom under hold Nos 2,3, and 5; those tanks in the machinery space are separated by longitudinal bulkheads for environmental protection (a different philosophy for the position of fuel tanks is discussed in an article by Dr Peter Cheng in our May issue). Model testing was carried out at the SSPA tank in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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