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Engine Control Room on Main Deck
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American President Line's C10-Class container ships were built in 1987-89 in Kiel and Bremen / Germany. There is a total of 5 container ships in this class, each one designed for a capacity of 4400 TEUs.
When built, these ships were the largest container ships sailing the ocean, and due to the high degree of automation on board, they were called the "Ship of the Future".
The vessel is equipped with a 12 cylinder SULZER diesel engine with an output of appr. 58,000 horsepower, which was also the biggest engine ever built at that time.
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Cylinder Heads of Sulzer Main Engine
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The automation was especially designed for these vessels by SIEMENS in Germany. The control room is located on the main deck and CCTV-Cameras monitor the engine room.
The picture to the right shows one half of the main engine. Highest praise most be given for the engine room lay-out. There is plenty of room and every equipment is positioned in a way that it can be accessed easily. Something that is still rare to find on many other vessels.
The "Brain" of these vessels is the so called CAMAC-System (Combined Alarm Monitoring And Control), which is a fully redundant process monitoring and control system, using SIEMENS MMC-210 industrial processors and SIMATIC S5 PLC's.
From a total number of eight workstations, the crew is capable of monitoring the entire vessel, and to control almost any valve and pump with the click of a trackball. There is a total number of close to 2,500 In-/Outputs processed by the system. Ballasting, bunkering and many other processes can be performed from any of the 8 workstations.
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Control Room with 3 CAMAC Workstations
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One of the Engine's Piston Rods
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