Container Vessel Hannover Bridge

The vessel with name Hannover Bridge is one of the largest and most modern container vessels of the world, built ever. The vessel is registered in Panama, in spite the Japan ship-owner and German name. Panama, officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá) is the southernmost country of Central America. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.

The ship is carrying containers, which is the fastest developing sector in cargo shipping. Container ships are some of the most modern and most beautiful vessels. Container ships are Cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers in a technique called Containerization. In fact you may tell that this sector is developing the whole shipping mostly. Hannover Bridge was built in 2006 in the Japan ship-yard IHR-Kure. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The ship can carry 8,212 TEUs according to company requirements, but IMO claims that this vessel capacity is more than 10 thousand. The company, which opperates with Hannover Bridge is K-Line Group, and its container shipping sector. The company has 55 container ships, and with this capacity is some of the big players on this market. The Gross tonnage of Hannover Bridge is 98,747 metric tons, the lenght of the vessel is 336 metes and the beam is 46 meters. These measurements are making this vessel one of the most known ships in the world.

The main diesel engine is Daewoo and allows to the vessel to reach the maximum speed of 24 knots. A diesel engine is an Internal combustion engine which operates using the Diesel cycle (named after Dr This article is about the Chaebol Daewoo Group For the Korean auto company Daewoo Motors that is associated with Chevrolet, see GM Daewoo. The cruising speed of Hannover Bridge is 21 knots and the economy one is 20. 5 knots. All these speeds are reached with more than 20% lower comsumption of heavy fuel. The emissions of CO2 are decreased in the new innovated diesel engine. A diesel engine is an Internal combustion engine which operates using the Diesel cycle (named after Dr That is important in ecological point of view. Ecology (from Greek grc οἶκος oikos, "house(hold" and grc -λογία -logia) is the scientific study of

See also

• Container Ships
• Emma Maersk
• K-Line

External links

Pictures and Information

• Vessel Tracker of Hannover Bridge
• Cruise and Cargo Ships
• K-Line America
• International Maritime Organization