Friday, June 20, 2008

Pyxis Leader car carrier

car carrier
Pyxis Leader is one car carrier built by Toyohashi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. The Pyxis Leader is designed to carry 5,427 units based on the standard car (6,405 units based on RT43L), trucks, complete knock down (CKD) kits and containers. This is the second of the series of car carriers being built continuously at the shipyard at Toyohashi. The vessel has twelve car decks with garage deck including two liftable decks. Car holds above the freeboard deck have two fire compartments. The main engine is a low-speed, long-stroke diesel engine Kobe Diesel-Mitsubishi 8UEC60LSn.The high performance propeller saves fuel oil consumption.
The vessel has a length of 199.94 meters, beam of 32.6 meters and draft of 10.30 meters, while the ship is fully loaded. The draught of the vessel is 34.8 meters and the free board is pretty large, like all car carriers. The main engine of the vessel is Kobe Diesel-Mitsubishi SUECeOLSH with full power of 15,540 kW (21,129ps) at 104 rpm. The maximum speed of the vessel is 20 knots.

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