MV Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan

The MV Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan is a Liberia-flagged Powership, a floating power plant, owned and operated by Karpowership. Built in 1984 by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in Venice, Italy and christened MV Nikolay Markin, she sailed as a barge carrier under various names and flags until in 2014 she was converted into a powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey. Currently, she served in Nacala, Mozambique supplying electricity to Mozambique's power grid for land-locked Zambia. Currently, she serves only in Mozambique.

Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan
Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan
History
 Liberia
Name:
  • İrem Sultan (2010– )
  • Enterprise (2003–10)
  • Smit Enterprise (1998–03)
  • Danube Express (1992–98)
  • Nikolay Markin (1984–92)
Owner:
  • Karpowership (2010– )
  • Dockwise Shipping, Breda, Netherlands (2003–10)
  • Smit Transport & Heavy Lift B.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands (1998–03)
  • Ukrainian Danube Shipping Co., Izmail, Ukraine (1984–98)
Operator: Karpowership
Port of registry:
Builder: Fincantieri Marghera in Venice, Italy
Yard number: 305
Laid down: November 1983
Completed: April 1984
Homeport: Monrovia, Liberia
Identification:
General characteristics
Class and type:
Tonnage:
Length: 157.75 m (517 ft 7 in) (LOA)
Beam: 29.00 m (95 ft 2 in)
Height: 5.31 m (17 ft 5 in)
Draught: 4.43 m (14 ft 6 in)
Installed power: 8,680 kW (11,640 hp)
Propulsion:
  • 2x GMT Type BL230.12V (230x310)
  • 2x GMT Type BL230.8V (230x310)
Speed: 12.8 knots (23.7 km/h; 14.7 mph)
Capacity: 114 MW generation (as Powership)


Barge carrier
Dutch barge carrier MV Enterpriser of Dockwise Shipping spotted in May 2008.

She was built by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in Venice, Italy with yard number 305 as a barge carrier (LASH carrier) in April 1984. The 157.75 m (517 ft 7 in) (LOA) long vessel has a beam of 29.00 m (95 ft 2 in), a depth of 5.31 m (17 ft 5 in) and a draft of 4.43 m (14 ft 6 in) registered.[1] Two diesel engines of Type GMT BL230.12V (230x310) and two of Type GMT BL230.8V (230x310) manufactured by the Grandi Motori Trieste in Trieste, Italy give a total power of 8,680 kW (11,640 hp) propelling the vessel at 12.8 knots (23.7 km/h; 14.7 mph).[2] By 8,727 DWT and 7982 NT, she has a cargo capacity of 17,395 GT.[2]

She saw service under the names Nikolay Markin, Danube Express, Smit Enterprise and Enterprise before she was sold in August 2010 to Karpowership.[3][4]

Powership

The originally barge carrier was converted into a Powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul as the fifth of the fleet. The construction cost €110 million.[5] She was renamed Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan.[4] The vessel is registered under the Liberian flag with homeport Monrovia.[1]

İrem Sultan

She has a generation capacity of 114 MW on dual-fuel (HFO- and gas-fired). In October 2011, the Powership sailed to Basra, Iraq, where she supplied electricity for about one million residents there in a timespan of three years.[5] Two vessels of the fleet, MV Karadeniz Powership Doğan Bey (126 MW) and MV Karadeniz Powership Rauf Bey (180 MW),[6] were already stationed in Iraq to bridge power shortage.[7]

In November 2015, Karpowership was awarded to supply electricity to land-locked Zambia via cross-border interconnected transmission lines through Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[8] Powership started delivering electricity in March 2016, within less than 4 months from contract signing. The contract is to initially supply 100 MW of base load power.

In March 2018, upon the completion of the contract with Zambia, Karpowership signed a new contract with Mozambique’s electricity utility company, Electricdade de Mozambique (EdM) to supply 48 MW of base load for 5 years.

A similar ship will be built for Adelaide. [9]

Ship's registry

References
  1. "Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan". Marine Traffic. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  2. "Enterprise". Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  3. "Smit Enterprise - IMO 8222252". Ship Spotting. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  4. "Karadeniz Powership Irem Sultan". Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  5. "Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan, Irak'a Enerji Verecek" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  6. "Dünyanın enerjisi' Irak'a yola çıktı". Ihlas News Agency (in Turkish). 2010-08-12. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  7. "Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan Irak Yolunda". PetroTürk (in Turkish). 2011-10-11. Archived from the original on 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  8. "First floating power station in Africa to supply power to northern Mozambique and Zambia". Mozambique. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  9. https://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/06/turkish-power-ship-proposed-for-adelaide.html
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