sailorman
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Snap being the operative word in this case, i wonder what the design team think about it
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Snap being the operative word in this case, i wonder what the design team think about it
Kukri
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Compression failure of the double bottoms rather than tension failure of the deck and sheerstrake, which is what most of us would have expected. Some "over-optimisation" to save steel weight there?
The ship is classed with NK.
am told that the the design team is Mitsubishi's although the ship was built at Imabari for MOL, which makes it all a bit odd, in Japanese terms. There are several sisters including two under construction.
By way of background, there has been quite a bit of "campaigning" by the lease companies, most notably Seaspan Corporation, whose CEO Jerry Wang is a very big wheel in this world and who has has been particularly vocal, to reduce the "unnecessary" steel content in large container ships.
Something tells me this campaign has just come to a grinding halt.
A couple of rather tight lipped communiques from Lloyd's Register have very swiftly informed us that they class no ships to this design and that IACS - the international association of classification societies - will be looking into it urgently!
sailorman
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Rather like the farmer who started to feed his donkey on 10% straw & dodnt know when to stop, the donkey died
z1ppy
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i havent seen a cargo manifest for the MOL comfort but i very much doubt there was anything other than the usual hazardous goods on board. MOL are not keen on carrying military explosives or arms and only take very limited commercial explosive products. that said an number of "normal" hazardous products could present an explosion risk in the case of a fire (as seen with the MSC vessel recently). With the MSC vessel, there was a fair amount of IMO dangerous goods on board but nothing that would not be seen on any of the containers ships crossing out oceans.
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Woodlouse
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The picture with the 'funnel smoke' was the aft end of the ship. Not the raging inferno that the bow became.
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Don't see how you can be certain which "half" of the ship its coming from, in two of them you're looking at both broken ends as it seems to have folded back on itself. At any rate the much denied fire was clearly very real.
hartcjhart
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those 'limpit' mines have come a long way since WW2