On June 22, 2022, the world's first 24,000 TEU(TEU) super large container ship "Ever Alot" was delivered to owner Evergreen Shipping at Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard under China State Shipbuilding Group. This marks a new level in the construction and supporting capabilities of Chinese enterprises' top super large container ships, creating a new milestone in China's shipbuilding industry. "Ever Alot" wheel mooring ropes are all made of high-performance ropes FBR-PowerNEEMA ® ROPE developed and produced by Zhejiang Four Brothers Rope Industry Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as Four Brothers Rope Industry FBR), which marks another successful application of FBR products in the world's top ship types.
"Ever Alot" is designed and built according to Lloyd's code and classified into ABS of American Classification Society. It is the first of a series of super large container ships cooperated by Hudong Zhonghua and Evergreen Shipping. It is independently designed by Hudong Zhonghua and owns completely independent intellectual property rights. With a total length of 399.99 meters, the ship is more than 60 meters longer than the world's largest aircraft carrier. The width is 61.5 meters, the deck area is 24,000 square meters, equivalent to 3.5 standard football fields; The depth of the cargo hold is 33.2 meters, and the maximum number of boxes can reach 25 layers, comparable to the height of the 22-story building, and can load more than 24,000 standard container loads of about 240,000 tons of cargo, which is currently a very large container ship in the world, known as the sea "Big MAC" and "cargo king". It is understood that Evergreen Shipping has ordered A total of 13 Evergreen A-class container ships in three shipyards in China and South Korea, including 5 Hudong Zhonghua, 2 Jiangnan Shipbuilding and 6 Samsung Heavy Industries.
FBR, with the world's leading research and development capability and manufacturing technology, stood out in the competition and won the recognition and affirmation of the shippers Evergreen Shipping, Hudong Zhonghua and Jiangnan Shipyard, and successfully obtained the supporting cable orders for all 7 new ships of this series built by Evergreen Shipping in China. FBR produces high-performance mooring cable FBR-PowerNEEMA ® ROPE for the Marine giant "Ever Alot" round. Compared with steel wire rope, FBR-PowerNEEMA ® rope has the same diameter and strength, while the weight is only 1/8 of the steel wire rope. It not only has obvious advantages such as high strength, light weight and reliability. Moreover, it has the hidden benefits of helping shorten the berthing operation time, reducing the dock cost and improving the safety of mooring operations, etc., and the product has been widely used and widely praised on super large ships such as 400,000 tons ore carrier VLOC and 300,000 tons tanker VLCC.
FBR has been focusing on the fiber rope industry for a long time. In the past 60 years of successful practice and continuous research and development process, it has accumulated a lot of mature experience. After carefully studying the characteristics of application scenarios of frequent berthing of super large container ships, fast changes in draft amplitude during loading and unloading, large wind surface of ships and high requirements for mooring cables, from the perspective of safety and science, Put forward a series of design schemes for shipowners and shipyards to choose, and finally with its own excellent technology and strength, won the trust and support of many shipowners and shipyards.
Four brothers rope industry FBR is Zhejiang Province "specialized and special new" enterprises and Zhejiang Province "invisible champion" enterprises; Is a research and development, manufacturing, sales and after-sales service as one, to provide users with a complete set of solutions professional chemical fiber rope manufacturers. The company is the only manufacturer in China that has the special type approval certificate of deep-sea mooring ropes issued by ABS and DNV, two major international classification societies. Previously, it was the first batch of domestic "deep-sea mooring ropes" supporting the deep-sea No. 1 platform of Lingshui 17-2 deep-sea oil and gas platform of CNOOC, successfully breaking the long-term monopoly of European and American enterprises in this field. The company not only has the Marine rope approval certificate of major shipping classification societies at home and abroad, but also the patented product anti-springback cable has obtained the type approval certificate of international shipping classification societies such as NK, DNV, etc. The company can produce chemical fiber ropes with a diameter of 3mm-300mm. Each year for VLOC, VLCC, LNG, VLGC and other large ships to provide thousands of high-performance cable FBR-POWERNEEMA® ROPE, while a large number of products exported to Europe and the United States market, chemical fiber rope single export amount of the industry leading.
Four brothers rope industry FBR to help users to achieve "the whole life cycle of cost control and security SAFE MORE SAVE MORE" as the enterprise's development mission, has always been committed to technology to ensure safety, service to create value, wholeheartedly to provide users with high quality rope products and engineering application solutions.
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