Recently, Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co., Ltd.’s No. 1 shipway has successively welcomed important production milestones: a 12500DWT multi-purpose vessel was successfully launched, and another vessel of the same type immediately followed with a keel laying ceremony on the shipway. The highly efficient pace of dual-line simultaneous progress over two days officially sounded the charge horn for the final sprint towards the annual plan.
At 7:30 AM on October 27th, accompanied by the sound of ceremonial salutes, a 12500DWT multi-purpose vessel built by Sanfu Ship for a German shipowner was successfully launched from the company’s No. 1 shipway.
At 14:18 PM on October 28th, the No. 1 shipway hosted the keel laying ceremony for another 12500DWT multi-purpose vessel. Representatives from the German shipowner, DNV classification society, and the Sanfu Ship team jointly witnessed this moment.
This series of vessel types is a further optimized design by Sanfu Ship in collaboration with the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute, based on the original 12500-ton multi-purpose vessel design. It has an overall length of 147.00 meters, a length between perpendiculars of 140.00 meters, a molded breadth of 22.80 meters, a molded depth of 11.55 meters, a design draft of 7.50 meters, a speed of 15 knots, and a range of 10,200 nautical miles, classed by DNV. The vessel is equipped with two 250-ton heavy lift cranes, with a combined lifting capacity of 500 tons. Combined with its ice-class strengthened design and TIER III emission compliance, it can both meet the complex navigation requirements of routes from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean and efficiently transport oversized cargo such as wind power equipment and heavy steel structures.
These intensively advanced production milestones are a microcosm of the long-term cooperation between Sanfu Ship and the German shipowner. As global demand for multi-purpose vessels recovers, Sanfu Ship is responding to the market with its batch construction capability, providing crucial shipping capacity support for international logistics and the transportation of new energy equipment.
