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ELEKTRA - IMO 9176577

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Photographer:
Pekka Laakso [ View profile ]
Captured:
Apr 12, 2008
Title:
Elektra
Location:
Kotka, Finland
Photo Category:
Vehicle Carriers
Added:
Apr 15, 2008
Views:
4,157
Image Resolution:
1,200 x 800

Description:

At Hietanen ro-ro terminal, Kotka, Finland on 12/04/2008. IMO: 9176577 Call sign: SIWB Operator: Wallenius Wilhelmsen
More info here (pdf file).

Note 1: She is still the largest car carrier ever called Finland.

Note 2: You can see here a nightview shot of her departure on her 1st call to Kotka last October. The quality isn´t enough good to show it here.

UPDATE: Replaced the old similar view. [b]Click Full Size to see the new photo![/b]

Vessel
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Current name:
ELEKTRA
Current flag:
Singapore
Vessel Type:
Vehicles Carrier
Gross tonnage:
67,264 tons
Summer DWT:
28,126 tons
Length:
228 m
Beam:
32 m
Draught:
9.9 m

AIS Position
of this ship

Last known position:
24°59’24.29” N, 55°4’33.24” E
Status:
Speed, course (heading):
0kts, 92.0° (46°)
Destination:
 - Location:
Jebel Ali
 - Arrival:
18th Apr 2024 / 20:01:16 UTC
Last update:
20 minutes ago
Source:
AIS (ShipXplorer)

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This is a very cool photo and you did manage to get really close to that carcarrier ! I have seen them.. from a disance and even from there they appear very impressive and with beautiful names like "Tristan" or "Turandot" :-D (that's beeen also Wallenius-Wilhelmsen green's)!

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person
Thank you. .-) Wallenius is using old opera names, which are very interesting as they are not so common names in shipping. Maybe only CMA CGM is using them too.

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person
Yes, I noticed that Wallenius-Wilhelmsen always choose nice names for their ships but on a funny note, I think carcarriers mostly do have very nice names hehe !!
Thought that this here - alot of style ! CMA-CGM Baudelaire :-D

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person
Maybe they have often nice names as otherwise they look so weird. :-D

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person
Weird, yes but I like their looks - there is so much of a sheer mass to look at !! Hehe but I personally am much more lucky with containerfeeders, as you may have recognized from my photos :-)

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person
I think the most car carriers are shoeboxes, not this type Wallenius though, they´ve been always my favourite. (Managed to see two of them, this and MANON once in Bremerhaven.)

Hamburg is full of the feederships. :lol:

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OK I admit it - I like shoeboxes - eh carcarriers, and no, I didn't ever think they look like shoeboxes, but now when you bring that to my mind !!
To be honest I use shoe-boxes as a storage-system at home here, works perfectly because all have the same size :-P

I have noticed that Hamburg is full of feedershipos, and one can say whatever it is interesting to watch them going from berth to berth when sitting on the River Elbe, quick and without tugs.

Just one more question, I noticed Teamlines ships do sometimes or very often have names ending with .."land" and after charter ended, they take back their original name, like the ex. "Svealand", is this a requirement by Teamline, to change names into something ..."land" ?

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person
And there are so many terminals in Hamburg. Some feeders can call of them within one call in Hamburg. :-D

Team Lines has normally used -land ending charternames. just wonder why HELGALAND bears still that name as she sails for Containerships, maybe just sublet to another operator for some period??

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person
Thanks for this, well it is interesting, with these names and which ship is chartered by whom, charters seem to be very much short-term, nowadays, heard that some of these smaller ships are currently laid up, too.

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person
I think so too. According to AISLive PARTNERSHIP and HANNI seems to be laid up. Btw why can´t understand the name HANNI? I think it´s a girl name.

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person
Well, I just think - as you said, it's a girl name, for a little girl, but not for a ship ! :-D Does simply not fit to a ship.. Svealand, I liked and the other thing, well we talked about carcarriers, they have always sooo good sounding names, well that is just my weird way of thinking :-D 8-)

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person
Ah I see. :-D

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person
I always liked "Fidelio" and - great name "madame butterfly", and also other shipping (carcarrier) company's use intersting or nice names, for example "sagittarius leader" or "utopia ace"

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person
Maybe well-chosen names gives a bit more dignity to this type of vessels? :-)

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person
I always liked "Fidelio" and - great name "madame butterfly", and also other shipping (carcarrier) company's use intersting or nice names, for example "sagittarius leader" or "utopia ace"

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person
I always liked "Fidelio" and - grat name "madame butterfly", and also other shipping (carcarrier) company's use intersting or nice names, for example "sagittarius leader" or "utopia ace"

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person
OK I admit it - I like shoeboxes - eh carcarriers, and no, I didn't ever think they look like shoeboxes, but now when you bring that to my mind !!
To be honest I use shoe-boxes as a storage-system at home here, works perfectly because all have the same size :-P

I have noticed that Hamburg is full of feedershipos, and one can say whatever it is interesting to watch them going from berth to berth when sitting on the River Elbe, quick and without tugs.

Just one more question, I noticed Teamlines ships do sometimes or very often have names ending with .."land" and after charter ended, they take back their original name, like the ex. "Svealand", is this a requirement by Teamline, to change names into something ..."land" ?

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person
Excellent view, i was thinking she was quite big

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person
Thanks, Matt! As now this kinda big called here I´m quite sure in the future more of this size are to come.

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