COSCO Beijing

	COSCO Beijing
History
Name	Beijing
Owner	Capetanissa Maritime Corp[1]
Port of registry	Malta
Builder	Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Ulsan, South Korea
Yard number	1653
Launched	14 April 2006
Completed	2006
Identification	IMO number: 9308508; MMSI number: 256937000; Callsign: 9HA4041;
Status	In service
General characteristics
Class and type	(A33A2CC) container Ship (Fully Cellular)
Tonnage	109,149 GT 107,503 DWT
Displacement	52,743
Length	350.55 m (1,150.1 ft)
Beam	43.0 m (141.1 ft)[2]
Draught	14.500
Depth	27.30
Decks	1dks
Installed power	74,760kW(101,644hp)
Speed	25.4 knots (47.0 km/h; 29.2 mph)
Capacity	9383 TEU

COSCO Beijing is a container ship built in 2006, by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. in South Korea. Beijing is owned by Capetanissa Maritime Corp of Greece, and operated by COSCO Container Lines Co Ltd (COSCON).

Hull and engine

Beijing is a GL class ship, with a length of 350.55 m (1,150.1 ft). She has one oil engine driving 1FP propeller, AuxGen 2 × 2,800 kW (3,800 hp) a.c., 3 × 2,200 kW (3,000 hp) a.c. Beijing has a service speed of 19 kn (35 km/h; 22 mph). The fastest recorded speed on Beijing was 21.3 kn (39.4 km/h; 24.5 mph)[3]

Incidents

On 18 November 2021, the ship was boarded in the Port of Long Beach by the United States Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board marine casualty investigators. They were investigating an undersea pipeline that may have been damaged by a ship's anchor and had shortly before spilled oil onto the beaches of Orange County. The ship's owners, Capetanissa of Liberia and the operator V-Ships Greece Ltd. were designated as parties of interest in the investigation.[4]

References

Lloyd's Register of Shipping (2007). Register of Ships. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. p. 1462. ISBN 978-1-906313-04-3.
"COSCO Beijing". Retrieved 5 March 2012.
"Cosco Beijing". Archived from the original on 28 January 2013.
Winton, Richard (19 November 2021). "Coast Guard targets second vessel tied to Orange County oil spill". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

External links

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[reg-1] Lloyd's Register of Shipping (2007). Register of Ships. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. p. 1462. ISBN 978-1-906313-04-3.

[Beam-2] "COSCO Beijing". Retrieved 5 March 2012.

[speed-3] "Cosco Beijing". Archived from the original on 28 January 2013.

[4] Winton, Richard (19 November 2021). "Coast Guard targets second vessel tied to Orange County oil spill". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 December 2021.