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Groot Cross-Bow� shows on Bodewes Shipyards yardnumber 760

Groot Ship Design designed on behalf of Bodewes Shipyards the bow of NB 760 with the remarkable Groot Cross-Bow®.

The Groot Cross-Bow® is an innovating bow shape with wave piercing abilities. In reference to more conventional bowshapes with bowflare a vessel with Groot Cross-Bow® will have less slamming and will easier maintain it’s speed. This means energy will be saved and therefore less fuel oil will be burned. Tests in the icetank of HSVA in Hamburg proved the Groot Cross-Bow® being suitable for sailing in ice, with optimized hull lines below the waterline it results in less installed main engine power in relation to vessels with conventional bow shapes. The Groot Cross-Bow® is an answer on requests from shipowners for more economical designs and so reducing the cost of each cargo ton mile.

The challenge for yno 760 was to integrate a Groot Cross-Bow® in the design and maintain a sufficient length of the cargo holds and cargo volume, based on the knowledge the vessel was going to be equipped with pontoon hatches operated with a hatchcover crane. The designers of Groot Ship Design and Bodewes Shipyards managed to do so.

Several shipowners and shipyards in Europe and China are building, or investigating to build MPC vessels or container vessels with a Groot Cross-Bow®. Owners appreciate the efficiency of the design and calculate an advantage of their new investment in comparison of the actual sailing benchmark vessels. For further information, please give us a call or send us your email with your design request.

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