Car Truck Carrier launched at Uljanik Shipyard
12,300 DWT EMERALD LEADER for Ray Car Carriers Ltd...


On Saturday, 1st December, Hull No. 471, known as “Emerald Leader” was launched from the Slipway No. 1.

The ship is a 4,900 Car Truck Carrier of 12,300 DWT for the Buyer Ray Car Carriers Ltd. This is the sixth ship in a series of nine ships contracted with the Company Ray Shipping and the fifth – the last launching at Uljanik this year.


The ship was put to sea by the customary cutting of the rope by Miss Vesna Dragaš, daughter of Mr. Koste Dragaš – the Slipway Manager to whom that day was also his last day of employment at Uljanik before retirement.

The present guests, Uljanik’s Management and the visitors were addressed by Mr. Silvan Kranjc, Member of the Managing Board of ULJANIK Brodogradilište d.d., who, among others, stressed out that the process of construction of the series of the ships for Ray Car Carriers was proceeding dynamically and according to schedule and that the last ship from the contracted series would be delivered at the beginning of the year 2009.

Mr. Kranjc thanked the supervisors of the company Ray Car Carriers and Det Norske Veritas as well as Uljanik’s shipbuilders, designers, constructors and subconstructors for the excellent collaboration and excellently done job.

Actually, the Shipbuilding Contract for Hull No. 468 – “Morning Menad” was signed on 14th December, 2004 and the keel was laid on 21st July, 2007.

In May 2005 there was signed a Shipbuilding Contract for the construction of two additional car carriers with the Buyer Ray Car Carriers Ltd. while last year, there was contracted one more ship so, that the earlier contracted series of ships was increased to nine ships in total. As a result, the company Ray Car Carriers Ltd., after the group Grimaldi, constitutes the second major Buyer of Uljanik’s ships for the time being.

The ship “Emerald Leader”’s length is 176 m, breadth 31.1 m and depth 14.5 – 30 m. She will achieve the maximum speed of 20.8 knots and will be driven by Uljanik/MAN-B&W 8S50MC-C main engine having an output of 12,640 kW at 127 r/min.

After the launching there was laid on the slipway the keel for Hull No. 472 known as “GRANDE ANGOLA”, the first Ro-Ro Car Truck Carrier from the series of seven so far contracted ships for the Italian Buyer GRIMALDI GROUP.