Contship Aurora

Type 4,100 TEU Container Owner Contship Containerlines Ltd. Builder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Co. Ltd.

Constructed under U.K flag, Contship Aurora was ordered by CP Ships and delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. Okpo Shipyard in September 2002. The vessel has been designed and built under the survey of Germanischer Lloyd — the first ship to qualify for Germanischer Lloyd's new "Green Passport" class character. This vessel has fully welded flush deck with forecastle, a raked stem with bulbous bow, a transom stern with open type stern frame, a semi-balanced rudder, a fixed pitch propeller and a bow thruster of controllable pitch propeller. Passageway from engine room to No.2 cargo hold space is arranged below the upper deck at both sides.

The propulsion machinery and living quarters have eight tiers including navigation the bridge. The speed of the vessel at the designed draft of 39 ft. (12 m) through sea trial is 25.3 knots with the main engine running at 90 percent MCR (62,940 PS) with 20 percent sea margin. With respect to vibration and noise, the vessel has demonstrated excellent results through sea trials. Especially the maximum vibration levels in living quarters including the wheelhouse, which was clocked at 4.4 mm/sec, which is below the allowable limit of 7 mm/sec, peak.

The vessel is arranged with seven cargo holds, fore of the engine room, and consists of 16 bays with 14 hatches, with three panel hatch covers in way of each cargo hold (except two panel for No.1 hatch cover). The cargo hold is equipped with cell guides and support structure for the carriage of 40-ft. ISO containers, 11 rows and seven tiers, with depth of holds for containers of four tiers with 9 ft. and three tiers with 10 ft. high in general. Double loading of 20 ft. containers in hold is considered in the 40-ft. cell guide. Containers on deck can be generally carried with 13 rows and in five, six or seven tiers.

The vessel is designed to carry total 4,121 TEU containers, 1,698 in hold and 2,423 TEU on deck.