MV Vale Rio de Janeiro
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Vale Rio de Janeiro |
| Namesake | Rio de Janeiro |
| Owner | Vale Shipping Holding Pte. Ltd. |
| Operator | Anglo Eastern Ship Management |
| Port of registry | Hong Kong |
| Route | Brazil to China |
| Builder | Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd, South Korea |
| Yard number | 1202 |
| Completed | September 2011 |
| In service | 2011–present |
| Identification | |
| Status | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Valemax bulk carrier |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 362.0 m (1,187.7 ft) |
| Beam | 65.0 m (213.3 ft) |
| Draught | 23.0 m (75.5 ft) (moulded) |
| Depth | 30.4 m (100 ft) |
| Installed power | MAN B&W 7S80ME-C8 (29,260 kW) |
| Propulsion | Single shaft; fixed-pitch propeller |
| Speed | 15.4 kn (28.5 km/h; 17.7 mph) |
| Crew | 33 |
MV Vale Rio de Janeiro, owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale, is one of the world's largest very large ore carriers and a sister ship of Vale Brasil. Designed to carry iron ore from Brazil to Asia (primer market China) along the Cape route around South Africa, she is the second of seven 400,000-tonne very large ore carriers (VLOC) ordered by Vale from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in South Korea and twelve from Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries in China. While close to the specifications of Chinamax, these ships are generally referred to as Valemax vessels by Vale.