Harburg makes it an even dozen for Hadag
The twelfth in a series of successful Type 2000 German port excursion ferries has gone into service in Hamburg for the city ferry and tourist group Hadag to cope with ever rising tourist and commuter demand on the port city’s waterways.
The 29.85 m long, 8.13 m wide Harburg was built at local shipyard Spezialschiffbau Oortkaten (SSB). It carries 250 passengers and seats 124 below deck and a further 60 on an open deck. It is the latest in a series taken into service over the past ten years as passenger totals at Hadag have tripled to some 6.8 million a year .
Costing €2.1m, Harburg is the second Type 2000 to go into service inside a year and follows Oortkaten, which joined the fleet in July last year. Yard head Renate Schütte said the two ships had been built almost alongside each other at the small shipyard and acknowledged that was ‘a big challenge for us’.
Hadag officials said more ships were needed to cope with ever rising demand and that new personnel were already being trained.
Harburg, which draws 1.7m, is driven by two Volvo-Penta diesel engines of Type D12-B and two Schottel rudder propellers of Type SRP 200. Also on hand are KHD Deutz BS 4M 1013 EC 102kW auxiliaries. Operated by just one man, the ship also has a Jastram 50kW lateral thruster to hold it steady at landing stations without the need to tie up.
One of the reasons why the Type 2000 has been so popular with Hadag is its stress on safety. The latest fleet addition, like its predecessors, has two mini-slide rescue slides. The vessel also boasts a Sperry RR G217 radar unit along with a Radarpilot 720 and an automatic identification system type VDL 6000, first introduced with the tenth ship in the series in 2008.
By Tom Todd
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