''NYK Vega'' is a

container ship A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal ...

, operated by

Nippon Yusen The , also known as NYK Line, is a Japanese shipping company. The company headquarters are located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It operates a fleet of over 820 ships, which includes container ships, Tanker (ship), tankers, bulk and woodchip carrie ...

Ship Management. The vessel has a capacity of 8,600 containers in company calculations and 9,012 TEU in

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calculations. The difference comes from the use of a different method of stowing in checking the ship's stability.

Design

''NYK Vega'' was built in 2006 by

Hyundai Heavy Industries HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI; ) is the world's largest shipbuilding company and a major heavy equipment manufacturer. Its headquarters are in Ulsan, South Korea. History HHI was founded in 1972 by Chung Ju-yung as a division ...

, when it was one of the largest and most modern container carriers of the world shipping, at long, wide and a fully loaded draft of . The

deadweight tonnage Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight; abbreviated to DWT, D.W.T., d.w.t., or dwt) or tons deadweight (DWT) is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry. It is the sum of the weights of cargo, fuel, fresh water Fresh water or ...

of ''NYK Vega'' is about 94,000 metric tons and the

gross tonnage Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage. Neither gross tonnage nor gross register tonnage should be confused with measures of mass or weig ...

of the ship is 97,825. She has a maximum speed of and a cruising speed of . ''NYK Vega'' is powered by MAN B&W 12K98MC engines with a power of . She sails under the

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nian flag.

Bridge equipment

Navigation is carried out using two electronic charts which integrate GPS, dGPS, AIS and ARPA, which usually allows the position of the ship to be plotted with an accuracy of 100 meters. ''NYK Vega''’s computers also assist in the efficient loading and unloading of the cargo and containers.

References

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Nippon Yusen
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