A Dutch shipyard, which last year handed over a 2,997-ton general cargo ship to Rörd Braren Bereederungs of Germany, has recently won the Baird Maritime/Work Boat World Award for ‘Best Medium Dry Cargo Ship 2024.’
Unden was built by Royal Bodewes at the Hoogezand shipyard to their 5050 dwt Eco-Trader design with its Swedish/Finnish 1A Clean Ship classification and is a sister of Annika Braren, which was delivered in 2020 to the same owner based in Kollmar on the Elbe downriver of Hamburg. Both vessels are being used primarily for transporting wood in the Baltic, North, and Mediterranean Seas, and during the winter.
The vessel has an overall length (LOA) of 86.93 metres (285.2 feet), a molded beam of 15 m (49 feet), a draft of 6.35m (20.8 feet), and a cargo hold that measures 60 by 12.4 m (200 by 40.7 feet) and has a capacity of 6,200 cubic metres (220,000 cubic feet).
As for propulsion, this involves an ABC 8DZC 1,780 kW (2,390 hp) main engine, which drives a Berg nozzle-housed, controllable-pitch propeller via a Renk gearbox to deliver a speed of 12 knots even at full load. The propulsion arrangement also includes two 130 kWe auxiliary engines, a 66 kWe emergency generator, a 300 kW bow thruster, and a steering system from Rolls-Royce.
In May last year the Eco-Trader newbuild was handed to owners Ahlmark Lines and Reederei Rörd Braren.
For more on the award-winning short-sea timber trader, Baird Maritime has a vessel review published in July also of last year.
