On June 24, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry held a christening ceremony for the 307,000DWT VLCC No. 6, built for CSSC Brokerage Services.
 
This ship is christened "CS HUNAN VENTURE", which is a new generation of highly competitive brand ship independently developed by DSIC.

The length of the vessel is about 333 meters, the width of the vessel is 60 meters, and the depth of the vessel is 30 meters.
 
It belongs to the unlimited navigation zone type, with a range of more than 25,000 nautical miles and a design draft of 20.5 meters. It can normally load 2 million barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Malacca.

Its energy-saving and environmental protection characteristics are very significant. An independent desulfurization scrubber room is installed at the stern of the chimney. The excellent hull profile is equipped with a more energy-saving G-type main engine and a new large-diameter high-efficiency propeller, and it is equipped with a propeller with independent intellectual property rights, high-efficiency and energy-saving combined device behind the propeller.
 
Each node plan is maintained in excellent condition throughout the ship. When floating out of the dock, the airtight completion rate of cargo tanks and ballast tanks is 100%. It took only 6 days to successfully complete 46 sailing test projects. The performance of each index is excellent, and it has won unanimous praise from the shipowner and ship inspector.
 
Source: Sarah Yu, XINDE MARINE NEWS

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