“Seaboard Pacific” enters fleet
Seaboard Marine, Miami, a subsidiary of Seaboard Corporation, is an ocean transportation company that provides direct, regular service between the United States and the Caribbean Basin, Central and South America.
Built at the Shandong Huanghai Shipbuilding Company, the multi-purpose ship has a nominal intake of 1,571 TEUs. “Seaboard Pacific” is carrying a mix of 571 new containers of various types and lengths that will soon be absorbed into Seaboard Marine’s container fleet. With a deadweight of 26,500 metric tons, the new built vessel has three cargo cranes with two of the cranes have a lifting capacity of 120 metric tons each (240 metric tons combined). Besides a flexible tweendeck configuration that will allow for a variety of heavy cargoes and containers, the relatively low draft (9.5 meters) for a vessel of its size will allow for berthing the Pacific in a broad scope of ports that have draft restrictions.
As per shipping line “Seaboard Pacific” will initially be deployed in Peru and Chile services. A sister vessel, the M/V “Seaboard Chile”, will be launched from the same shipyard in late March or early April.
Passenger vessel built for the Government of India
Colombo Dockyard PLC, Sri Lanka, delivered the first passenger/cargo vessel built for the Administration of Union Territories of Lakshadweep, India. This vessel is the first one of a series of two ocean going passenger/cargo ships and will be in operation en-route from the Main Land (Cochin, India) to UTL Islands, as well as operate in the inter island routes.
The highlight of this new vessel is that it is designed and built in using the latest developments in technology which makes it suitable for operation in the toughest weather conditions that may be encountered on the way, as the shipyard states
The design of the vessel was developed by Larsen & Tourbo and e-engineering solutions - Marine Ship, which is a strategic Business Unit of Larsen & Tourbo of India. The vessel was built and classed by Lloyds Register of Shipping and Indian Register of Shipping and statutory rules applicable for a vessel of this type.
Throughout the period of construction of the vessel, consultants from the Shipping Corporation of India, Directorate of Shipping of India, Merchant Maritime Department visited and continuously monitored the progress and carried out numerous inspections according to their set procedures. As an ISO 9001:2000 certified company, Colombo Dockyard with its own superior quality control and quality assurance procedures in place, the company breezed through these stringent quality examinations.
