Delivery of Bangkok Highway Car Carrier

Tokyo, May 25, 2009 – Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation delivered today the Bangkok Highway pure car carrier (PCC), with a capacity of 5,000 cars, to KAW1601 Shipping S.A at Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. (NACKS) in Nantong, China on May 22. The carrier, identified as Kawasaki hull No. 1601, is the fourth PCC with a capacity of 5,000 cars built at NACKS.

The 179.99 m long, roll-on/roll-off PCC has 12 decks, of which three are movable. They can be lifted up or lowered from the ceiling to accommodate mixed loading of different types of vehicles, including buses and trucks. There are two rampways to facilitate the loading and unloading of large cars driven to/from ports.

In an effort to make the ship more eco-friendly, the carrier is powered by an electronically controlled ME engine that optimizes fuel injection patterns and exhaust valve opening/closing timing, by allowing the operator to select either an economy mode that reduces fuel consumption or an emission mode that reduces exhaust emissions.