Rix Atlantic of Limassol, Cyprus

Rix Atlantic arriving at Great Yarmouth from Klaipeda, Lithuania.

 

Name: Rix Atlantic

Vessel type: Cargo vessel

Home port: Limassol

Flag: Cyprus

IMO: 9194270

MMSI: 209151000

Call sign: 5BWM4

Length overall: 87.95 m

Beam 12.39 m

Draught: 5.59 m

Depth: 7.65 m

Gross tonnage: 2,451 ton

Net tonnage: 1,358 ton

Max deadweight: 3,793 ton

Number of holds: 1

Hold dimensions: 59 x 10.3 x 8.13 m

Hold capacity, grain: 4,870 m3

Engine: 1 x Stork Wartsila SWD 8FHD240G

Engine output: 1 x 1,971 hp (1,470 kW)

Bow thruster: 1 x 248 hp (185 kW)

Speed: 11 knots

Service speed: 9 knots

Builder: Daewoo-Mangalia Heavy Industries S A, Mangalia, Romania

Yard number: 1001

Launch date: 18th. March 1999

Delivery date: 3rd. December 1999

Manager: Rix Shipmanagement, Riga, Latvia

Operator: Baltic Shipping Company A/S, Hillerød, Denmark

 

Previous names:

Sirena until November 2017

Global 1 until October 2014

Rana until June 2008

Ramspol until October 2006

Bosgat until July 2003

 

GROUNDING OFF KOLDING.

Rix Atlantic ran aground off Drejens in posistion 55° 29.61' N 009° 34.95' E at 5.25 a.m ON 7th. May 2019.

The ship was enroute from Klaipeda, Lithuania where it had sailed on 4th. May 4, to Kolding, Denmark, carrying a cargo of maize. It was thought that the captain read the chart incorrectly and turned too late, resulting in the ship sailing onto a sandbar. The Danish tug Valdemar was called from Fredericia on 8th. May and Rix Atlantic was refloated in the afternoon. After inspections of the hull, the ship was taken to the South Quay at Kolding where it moored at 7.40 p.m. on 8th. May. She sailed again at 3.50 p.m. on 10th. May bound to Frederiksad where she moored at the container terminal at 9.15 p.m. on 11th. May.

 

 

 

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