Groningen Shipyard launched successfully the first vessel, mv LADY ANNA. The vessel is engineered in close cooperation with the shipyard. After the design was completed, complete engineering for hull systems and piping was executed by Groot Ship Design enabling the shipyard to build the vessel in a record breaking time.
Combined in the design is a high payload with a low installed main engine power ensuring a speed of approx 10 knots and low fuel oil consumption. The requested sailing area, the vessel will sail European coastal waters but had also to be able to sail the rivers Rhine and Seine and pas the locks of the Trollhattan canal in Sweden, asked for special attention in the design.
Incorporated is a movable wheelhouse, a tunnel-shaped aftship, an efficiency improving nozzle and a bulbous bow. The vessel is the first from a series of which the shipyard has big expectations. Building on a Dutch shipyard ensures building speed and quality.
[mappress] World Maritime News Staff, November 28, 2011; Image: GrootShipDesign