Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company (Chipolbrok) has placed an order for four heavy lift vessels in a series to be built by China's Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering.
The multi-purpose ships will each have a deadweight of 60,800 as well as bow thrusters to provide additional lateral manoeuvrability, particularly when navigating in port waters.
Both the bridge and the accommodation block on each ship will be placed closer to the bow to provide as much deck space as possible for the transport of heavy and oversized cargoes such as offshore wind turbine blades. The deck will have a rated capacity of 4.5 tonnes per square metre.
Each ship will have a length of just under 200 metres, a beam of 32.3 metres, four holds, and three 200-tonne cranes. The ships may also transport bulk cargo and 20-foot containers with each vessel having a maximum capacity of 3,180 TEUs.
The new Chipolbrok vessels will also be designed to meet IMO Tier III and EEDI Phase III requirements.
