Histria Perla

Histria Perla is a chemical/oil products tanker managed by the Romanian shipping company Histria Shipmanagement and is registered in Valletta, Malta.

History

Histria Perla was built by the Constanța Shipyard in 2005 as a ship used for the transportation of oil and oil products and chemical products. The ship is chartered by the Italian oil and natural gas company Eni. Histria Perla was the 500th ship to receive Emergency Response Service (ERS) classification from the Hamburg based German company Germanischer Lloyd in 2006.

Technical description

Histria Perla is equipped with a double hull, one two-stroke acting diesel engine MAN B&W 6S50MC-C with a capacity of directly acting on the propeller shaft and a four-bladed fixed propeller built by Wärtsilä Propulsion Netherlands. It also has another three auxiliary MAN B&W 6L23/30H diesel engines with a capacity of each. The ship has 14 hydraulically driven centrifugal deepwell Framo cargo pumps, 10 pumps with a capacity of 500 m³/hour, two pumps with a capacity of 200 m³/hour, one pump with a capacity of 100 m³/hour and one portable pump with a capacity of 150 m³/hour.

The ship is equipped with five manifolds, a discharge capacity of 3,000 m³/hour, a cargo handling capacity of 3,750 m³/hour, one Liebherr hose-handling crane with a reach of , an Alfa Lawal JWSP-26-C100 freshwater conversion plant with a capacity of 30 m³/day and a Jowa Bio STP3 sewage-treatment plant capable of sustaining 34 people. The ship has ten cargo tanks, two tanks with a capacity of 3,550 m³, four tanks with a capacity of 4,900 m³, four tanks with a capacity of 5,100 m³ and two slop tanks with a capacity of 1,000 m³.

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