Blimey that is huge! My wife and I just returned from our first cruise, from Miami to the Caribbean. We cruised on the MSC Seascape. Very enjoyable, and impressed with the gargantuan vessel.
The Seascape is quite large but looks really nice onboard. It's probably a bit too big for my liking, too many people onboard. Glad you enjoyed your cruise.
For those who do not work in this field of activity, everything looks beautiful from the outside. Accommodation forward, difficult and challenging living and working conditions for crew, especially for engine department crew. UMS system for engine department. Accommodation forward engine room, ECR aft ??!!! Duty engineer and duty oiler will run from accommodation - forward to ECR - enginee room - aft to deal with the alarms during UMS???!!! How it will the UMS service be done? How many engineers and engine ratings are in the crew on board. Methanol is liquid at atmospheric temperatures and pressures and hence bunkering is almost similar to conventional fuel oils, although the low-flashpoint and toxic properties require additional equipment and operational procedures. One of the major disadvantage of methanol is its lower energy content per volume. Methanol requires fuel tanks approximately 2.5 times the size of HFO tanks for the same energy content, or 1.3 times larger than equivalent LNG tanks. This has consequences for the spatial arrangements on board and the trading range of methanol-powered vessels. As a result, its applicability is mainly for smaller ships, feeder container vessels, at least initially. Methanol is a low-flashpoint flammable liquid and should take additional precautions to prevent ignition due to electrical arcing. Methanol bunkering is a classic chemical tank cargo operation procedure, considering that methanol is a Dangerous Chemicals, it involves a much more complicated procedure than the conventional fuel, Inerting, Purging, etc. All these procedures involve adjacent installations, plus their operation and maintenance, installations that were usually found only on chemical tankers. In fact the container vessel powered by methanol becomes also small chemical tank ship. On board the chemical tankers, directly in charge of cargo operation ( safe loading, discharging and stowage of cargo) is an experienced Chief Mate. That's all he does on board, not maneuvers, not watch duty. On these container ships powered by methanol, the methanol bunkering operation is done by the engine department. Anyway, classic fuel remains to be bunkered, because methanol cannot be used alone as a fuel for two-stroke naval engines. Most current 2 strokes naval engines methanol requires a pilot fuel for efficient burning, so conventional fuel must be carried on board as well, doubling as fall-back fuel too.
The real reason for the bridge up front is to accommodate sufficient space for the Methanol tanks as they need to be twice the size of fossil oil ones due to the fact that Methanol only provides half the energi compared to oil !
Exactly! I'm sure the customers appreciate the extra time it takes to move anywhere. There won't be too many of these built as using corn for food instead of fuel becomes obvious.
hi, great video, but why have the clowns put the bridge and accommadation block at the the very front, in a very rough sea its going to cop it first. far better in the middle like some of them already are
It's so they can maximise the amount of teu she can carry. Having bridge on up on the bow means they can stack higher as visibility would be greatly improved
I hope there’s no bridges in it’s way?!……..jeez can you imagine that ship hitting a bridge?? This ship is way bigger than the one that just took out the bridge in Baltimore
Sometimes they do lose containers overboard in very rough seas. The record was on the One Apus with over 1800 lost and many stacks collapsed on the deck
This sounds a pretty dreadful comment but if this ship had been the vessel that hit the Baltimore bridge could envisage any survivors looking at the location of the bridge on this vessel having spent numerous hours at the port of Felixstowe at the quayside I believe these ships have really grown far to big to the extent they have become a bit like the giant supertankers of old
You are right in thinking that, survival rate wouldn't be great as the 1st row of containers were crumpled by the bridge falling on the vessel meaning survival rate would have drastically reduced. The scary thing is that this ship only what they call a medium to large ship. She only holds 16,000 odd teu whereas the world's largest holds 24,346teu
We still buy what you call crap in the shops so the never ending supply chain doesn't stop. Ships will keep coming in to restock shelves in shops or in warehouses
