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MV ''Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan'' is a
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-flagged floating power plant owned and operated by
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. In 2016, she was launched from the Hat-San Shipyard in Altinova, Yalova, Turkey, marking the beginning of her mission to supply electricity to the Ghana power grid.


Cargo ship

The ship was built in 2000 as a bulk carrier by Samsung Shipbuilding in
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, South Korea. The long vessel has a beam of and a draft of . By 184,744 DWT, she has a cargo capacity of . She has an average speed of at max. . The vessel was owned by the Australian company Teekay Shipping Australia in Sydney.


Powership

The Turkish company Karadeniz Holding purchased the vessel MV ''Pacific Triangle'' at the end of 2014 for US$17 million from Teekay Shipping. The bulk carrier was converted into a Powership with a generation capacity of 470 MW a
Hat-San Shipyard
in Altinova, Yalova. On November 13, 2016, the Powership, renamed MV ''Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan'', sailed to Ghana in a ceremony attended by the President
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, Prime Minister
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, Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication Ahmet Arslan and other officials. She was commissioned to supply electricity to the power grid in
Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...
. She is the world's biggest Powership.


Ship's registry

* ex-MV ''Pacific Triangle'', Liberia-flagged, owned by Teekay Shipping Australia in Sydney, Australia.


See also

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List of power stations in Ghana The following page lists power stations in Ghana. Thermal power stations Hydroelectric power stations Solar power stations See also *Electricity in Ghana *List of largest power stations in the world *List of power stations in Africa R ...
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Electricity sector in Ghana Ghana generates electric power from hydropower, fossil-fuel (Thermal power, thermal energy), and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy. Electricity generation is one of the key factors in order to achieve the development of th ...


References

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