MV Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan
The MV Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan is a Liberia-flagged Powership, a floating power plant, owned and operated by Karpowership. Built in 1984 by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in Venice, Italy and christened MV Nikolay Markin, she sailed as a barge carrier under various names and flags until in 2014 she was converted into a powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey. Currently, she served in Nacala, Mozambique supplying electricity to Mozambique's power grid for land-locked Zambia. Currently, she serves only in Mozambique.
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Operator: | Karpowership |
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Builder: | Fincantieri Marghera in Venice, Italy |
Yard number: | 305 |
Laid down: | November 1983 |
Completed: | April 1984 |
Homeport: | Monrovia, Liberia |
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Length: | 157.75 m (517 ft 7 in) (LOA) |
Beam: | 29.00 m (95 ft 2 in) |
Height: | 5.31 m (17 ft 5 in) |
Draught: | 4.43 m (14 ft 6 in) |
Installed power: | 8,680 kW (11,640 hp) |
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Speed: | 12.8 knots (23.7 km/h; 14.7 mph) |
Capacity: | 114 MW generation (as Powership) |
Barge carrier
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She was built by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in Venice, Italy with yard number 305 as a barge carrier (LASH carrier) in April 1984. The 157.75 m (517 ft 7 in) (LOA) long vessel has a beam of 29.00 m (95 ft 2 in), a depth of 5.31 m (17 ft 5 in) and a draft of 4.43 m (14 ft 6 in) registered.[1] Two diesel engines of Type GMT BL230.12V (230x310) and two of Type GMT BL230.8V (230x310) manufactured by the Grandi Motori Trieste in Trieste, Italy give a total power of 8,680 kW (11,640 hp) propelling the vessel at 12.8 knots (23.7 km/h; 14.7 mph).[2] By 8,727 DWT and 7982 NT, she has a cargo capacity of 17,395 GT.[2]
She saw service under the names Nikolay Markin, Danube Express, Smit Enterprise and Enterprise before she was sold in August 2010 to Karpowership.[3][4]
Powership
The originally barge carrier was converted into a Powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul as the fifth of the fleet. The construction cost €110 million.[5] She was renamed Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan.[4] The vessel is registered under the Liberian flag with homeport Monrovia.[1]
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She has a generation capacity of 114 MW on dual-fuel (HFO- and gas-fired). In October 2011, the Powership sailed to Basra, Iraq, where she supplied electricity for about one million residents there in a timespan of three years.[5] Two vessels of the fleet, MV Karadeniz Powership Doğan Bey (126 MW) and MV Karadeniz Powership Rauf Bey (180 MW),[6] were already stationed in Iraq to bridge power shortage.[7]
In November 2015, Karpowership was awarded to supply electricity to land-locked Zambia via cross-border interconnected transmission lines through Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[8]. Powership started delivering electricity in March 2016, within less than 4 months from contract signing. The contract is to initially supply 100 MW of base load power.
In March 2018, upon the completion of the contract with Zambia, Karpowership signed a new contract with Mozambique’s electricity utility company, Electricdade de Mozambique (EdM) to supply 48 MW of base load for 5 years.
Ship's registry
- ex-MV Nikolay Markin owned by Ukrainian Danube Shipping Co. based in Izmail, Ukraine registered in the Ukrainian SSR with homeport Izmail until June 14, 1992,
- ex-MV Danube Express owned by Ukrainian Danube Shipping Co. based in Izmail, Ukraine registered in Malta with homeport Valletta until July 1998,
- ex-MV Smit Enterprise owned by Smit Transport & Heavy Lift B.V. based in Rotterdam, Netherlands registered in the Bahamas with homeport Nassau until July 2003,
- ex-MV Enterprise owned by Dockwise Shipping based in Breda, Netherlands registered in the Netherlands Antilles with homeport Willemstad until August 2010.[2][3][4]
References
- "Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan". Marine Traffic. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- "Enterprise". Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- "Smit Enterprise - IMO 8222252". Ship Spotting. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- "Karadeniz Powership Irem Sultan". Retrieved 2018-08-17.
- "Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan, Irak'a Enerji Verecek" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2018-08-17.
- "Dünyanın enerjisi' Irak'a yola çıktı". Ihlas News Agency (in Turkish). 2010-08-12. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- "Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan Irak Yolunda". PetroTürk (in Turkish). 2011-10-11. Archived from the original on 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- "First floating power station in Africa to supply power to northern Mozambique and Zambia". Mozambique. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
- https://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/06/turkish-power-ship-proposed-for-adelaide.html
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