Odense Steel Shipyard

Odense Steel Shipyard (Danish: Odense Staalskibsværft) located in Odense, Denmark was constructed in 1918–1919 by the A.P. Møller company and will be closed sometime in 2012. A new yard with bigger and better facilities was constructed 1957–1959 on a new site located in Munkebo a few kilometres outside of Odense proper. Odense Steel Shipyard is the largest yard within the Odense Steel Shipyard Group, which also consists of two yards and an engineering company, all situated in the Baltics. The yard is known for designing and building innovative vessels that apply the newest technology in design and equipment.

Since 1996 the Yard has built some of the world's largest container ships; including the Mærsk E-class with a nominal capacity of 15.550 TEU (originally declared as 11.000 TEU), the highest equivalent number of any vessel as of today. [1] However, Maersk chose Daewoo to build its latest and largest design, the Triple E class with a nominal capacity of 18.000 TEU, as the Asian shipyard was more competitive.[2]

Because of the innovative products developed at Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd., the company is widely recognised as an influential voice in the shipbuilding community.

The original shipyard remained in operation until 1966 when all operations were transferred to the new site. Unlike the modern shipyard, the old yard produced civilian and merchant vessels only. Its first completed ship was cargo steamship Robert Mærsk, completed in 1920. Its last production was no. 177, bulkcarrier Laura Mærsk.

Yard No. / Typ / Name of ship / Company / delivered

The new Odense Steel Shipyard (the "Lindø" Yard)

The new shipyard originally had two building docks no. I and II (300 x 45 x 7,5 metres each) allowing the construction of tankers with up to 100,000 metric tons deadweight (DWT). The Yard was enlarged in 1967 including a new very large building dock No. III (415 x 90 metres) and a great 800 ton., 95 Metres high, 148,5 Metres span gantry crane was added allowing the construction of tankers in VLCC and ULCC class. The largest construction planned on the yard were two 500,000 DWT tankers, but this order was later cancelled. From the 1960s until 1977 the yard only constructed oil tankers (no larger than 330,000 DWT.) as well as bulk carriers. The first RORO ship was built in 1979, and the first container ship in 1980. In Dec. 1992, the yard completed the world's first 300,000 DWT double-hull tanker. In Jan.1996 they delivered its first Post-Panamax container ship. In Dec, 3rd, 1999 the gantry crane crashed after a hurricane in the building dock and damaged the ship newbuild No.170, which was nonetheless repaired and delivered two months later. MAN-TAKRAF; Leipzig / Germany delivered a new 1000 ton., 110 Metre high gantry crane in April 2001.

Building No. / Typ / Name of ship / Company / Tonnage / Launch

References

  1. ^ Holt, Julie. Ebba Mærsk beats world record Ing.dk, 28 May 2010. Retrieved: 13 June 2010.
  2. ^ "Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Daewoo wins $2bn Maersk order, talks on $2bn". 2011-02-25. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C02%5C19%5Cstory_19-2-2011_pg5_25. Retrieved 2011-02-25.