6/9/2012 8:00 (LT) - Ukrainian mega-bulk carrier V KERKIS in the port of South. V KERKIS - third in size bulker has ever called at the Black Sea. Kerkis V : Ship Type: Bulk carrier. Year Built: 1982. Length x Breadth: 315 m X 50 m. Gross Tonnage: 106771, DeadWeight: 208 952 t. Speed recorded (Max / Average): 14.2 / 13.6 knots. Flag: Bahamas [BS]. Call Sign: C6QP5. IMO: 8029064, MMSI: 308074000.
V Kerkis - as reported BSNews - left the Black Sea with a cargo of iron ore from the port of South June 11, 2012.
17:20 (LT) 11 June 2012 - a Turkish company Transbosphor Maritime inform us BSNews , that the bulk carrier V KERKIS entered the Bosporus in 13:30 (LT) and walked out of the strait in 15:09 (LT) 11 June 2012. The direction of the ship - the Chinese port of Dalian (Dalian Far).
Furthermore, the Turkish colleagues have sent us photos bulker V Kerkis , passing the Bosphorus, for what they special thanks :)
Then route the bulk carrier would be:
Jun November 2012ISTANBUL (Bosphorus)Jun 14, 2012PORT SAID (the entrance to the Suez Canal)Jul 24, 2012RIZHAO * (China, the final destination)Aug 25, 2012PORT SAID (withdrawal from the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea)Aug 29 2012ISTANBUL (Bosphorus Strait, the entrance to the Black Sea)Aug 31 2012TUAPSE===
*) Reference BSNews: RIZHAO (in Russian pronunciation - Rizhao) and a new urban district port city in east China's Shandong Province. Rizhao Port specializes in the transshipment of coal, iron ore, crude oil and containers. Currently, Rizhao port with a turnover of more than 110 million tons / year was the second largest port in Shandong Province.
V KERKIS arrived August 31, 2012 in Port TUAPSE, which has a bulk terminal, carrying 79 tons of ballast.
Here's how to look the passage of the giant ship on the Turkish Straits in May 2012, when it went in ballast for loading at the port of South.
Photo taken Ahmet Emre Gursoy , who works in the company Transbosphor Maritim :
Turkish bulk carrier escorted universal tug-rescue vessels KURTARMA KURTARMA 9 and 10.
V KERKIS TUAPSE left the port around 23:00 in Kiev September 4, 2012. Around 16:00 (LT) September 5, 2012 bulker was abeam of Yalta, where we were able to see it on the horizon at a distance of about 26 km.
Photo by Andrey Klimenko, BSNews
According to the sea port of Tuapse , the master - O.Mamotenko, crew - 29 people. Shipowner - Costa Palma Navigation INC (Odessa Ukraine). Draft nose / aft - 7.8 / 10.8 maximum draft 18.707 m Maximum load capacity - 208,952 tons.
Bulker V KERKIS first came to the port South September 25, 2010 . Then it became the largest ship taken in the port. Here's what we wrote about it:
Odessa pilots brought record bulker «V Kerkis» from port "South" - 06.10.2010.
Port "South" has the largest ship in its history - V Kerkis - 09/29/2010
Before him, the palm held bulker AUSTRALIA (Year Built: 1993. Length x Breadth: 303 m X 46 m. Gross Tonnage: 91188, DeadWeight: 172 972 t. Speed recorded (Max / Average): / knots. Flag: Liberia [LR ]. Callsign: A8LF7. IMO: 9031272). This giant enters the Port South in November 2009.Now, apparently, he had already written off.
Glory of the largest ship ever comes in Yuzhny, lasted from V KERKIS a long time - just 16 April 2012 at the port came the new record holder: MAXI BRAZIL (he is 12 meters long, 4 meters wider and takes over 50 thousand tons of cargo more - Length x Breadth: 327 m X 54 m. Gross Tonnage: 129325, DeadWeight: 259,587 t)
By the time we finished the work on this paper, bulk V KERKIS entered the waters of the port at South tugboats MOGUCHIY, TIGRIS and GENNADIY SAVELYEV.
Case history
As we have reported, to date, the 1st place in the ranking of the largest-sized vessels, ever passes through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea, is Ukrainian (a Dominican flag) bulker MAXI BRAZIL.
MAXI BRAZIL: Ship Type: Bulk carrier. Year built: 1985. Length x Breadth: 327 m X 54 m. Gross Tonnage: 129325, DeadWeight: 259 587 t. Speed recorded (Max / Average): 11.3 / 10.9 knots.Flag: Dominica [DM]. Callsign: J7CC3. IMO: 8404147, MMSI: 325537000
This ship was the largest bulk carrier, passed the Bosphorus in its history, surpassing the previous two leaders.
Before August 8, 2012 at the 2nd place was also Ukrainian bulk carrier (under the Bahamian flag) V Kerkis.
On the 3rd place in the history of the Black Sea was a Norwegian (under the British flag) SG ENTERPRISE :
SG ENTERPRISE : Ship Type: Bulk carrier. Year built: 1997. Length and width: 312 m X 50 m.Gross Tonnage: 108083, DeadWeight: 211 485 t. Speed recorded (Max / Average): 13.2 / 7.9 knots.Flag: United Kingdom [UK]. Callsign: 2EZE6. IMO: 9112090, MMSI: 235089334.
Chinese bulk carrier HEBEI SUCCESS pushed into third place in the history of the Black Sea and the Straits Ukrainian bulk carrier V KERKIS and firmly took 2nd place in our ranking of the largest ships of the Black Sea.
Our colleagues at the Istanbul Transbosphor Maritime wiring carried this giant through the Straitson August 7-8, 2012 (for ships over 300 meters in the Straits there is a special order of passage), and kindly sent her beautiful photos.
Well, we, with the help of marine AIS - http://blacksea.sytes.net and www.marinetraffic.com ,August 9, 2012 accompanied him on the Black Sea to Constanta.
Bulker HEBEI SUCCESS passes under one of the bridges over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, August 8, 2012, photoCavit Ege Tulca
HEBEI SUCCESS : Ship Type: Ore carrier. Year built: 1993. Length and width: 322 m X 58 m. Gross Tonnage: 140222, DeadWeight: 230000 t. Speed recorded (Max / Average): 11.8 / 9.6 knots. Flag: Hongkong [HK]. Callsign: VRCZ9. IMO: 9032642, MMSI: 477883700. At this point in the Port: CONSTANTA.