Namegiving Ceremony in Hyundai Shipyard for Maersk's New VLCC, ELI MAERSK

On Friday, 30 June 2000, at Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard in Ulsan
, South Korea, Mrs Anne Grete Takla, wife of Mr. Lars A. Takla, Presid
ent and Managing Director of Phillips Petroleum Company, Norway, named
the Hyundai newbuilding No 1235. The tanker built for A.P.Moller was
named ELI MAERSK with homeport in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.
It is the sixth in a series of Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) to be
built at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., South Korea.
This is the third time a vessel in the A.P.Moller fleet is given the n
ame ELI MAERSK.
The vessel having a double hull is designed in accordance with the lat
est international rules of IMO (International Maritime Organisation) f
or the prevention of oil pollution and with the American Oil Pollution
Act (OPA 90).
Overall length of the ELI MAERSK is 332.93 meters with a breadth of 58
.0 meters and a depth moulded of 31.0 meters. The scantling dead-weigh
t of the vessel is 308,491 DWT and she can carry more than 2.0 million
barrels of crude oil and has ballast capacity of over 100,000 cubic m
eters. Three steam driven cargo pumps each with a capacity of 5,500 cu
bic meters per hour can discharge the ship in less than 24 hours. The
tanker has been approved for operation with a total crew of only 13 du
e to the high level of automation, the advanced fire-fighting system,
the handy layout of mooring systems and the novel and highly efficient
design of the bridge.
Upon delivery from yard, ELI MAERSK, under the command of Captain Borg
e Henry Jensen and with Paul Steen Notlevsen as Chief Engineer, will d
epart for the Arabian Gulf on her maiden voyage.
The vessel will now join her five sisters already delivered in their c
ommitment to provide oil companies world-wide with safe and environmen
tally-friendly transportation of crude oil from the production source
to the refinery.