December 2023
This evening the company MMG (Mecklenburger Metallguss GmbH) has rented our event area on deck 10. Even if you don’t know the company, you are probably familiar with their work. The history of the company can be followed back to 1875, in the production of metallic parts for mechanical engineering. After World War II, the company became more and more specialised in shipbuilding parts, and most of all propellers. The production of propellers of over 80 tonnes has been their core business. They have produced the blades that set ships like the Queen Mary 2 in motion, but also container ships like those of the Emma-Maersk-class or the Colombo-Express-class of Hapag Lloyd.
MMG asked us if we have a model of a ship, they have made the propeller for, and we could lend it for their event. That is why the original yard model of the Bremen Express (part of the Colombo-Express-class) in a scale of 1:200 has left its usual position beside our ship handling simulator on deck 1, to be on deck 10 for an evening.
The Bremen Express was built in 2008 at the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, Republic of Korea, for the Hapag Lloyd AG. She was the seventh sister of a class of 8 container carriers with a capacity for 8749 TEU (standard containers). The ships were all built by the same shipyard between 2004 and 2008 and are all still in service today. None of them has been sold or renamed. Six further ships of the class had been ordered, but they were cancelled to build the units of the larger Hamburg-Express-class (13200 TEU).
The ships are 356,5 m long and 43 m wide, powered by a MAN diesel engine of the type 12K98ME with 46907 hp. Their top speed is 25 knots. They are operated by a crew of 24.
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