Engineering:MV Serengeti
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| Name: | MV Serengeti |
| Namesake: | Serengeti |
| Operator: | Marine Services Company Limited |
| Completed: | 1988[1] |
| Homeport: | Mwanza, Tanzania |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | passenger and cargo ship |
| Tonnage: | 975 GT[1] |
| Length: | 55.6 m (182 ft)[1] |
| Beam: | 11.7 m (38 ft)[1] |
| Draught: | 2.76 m (9 ft 1 in)[1] |
| Ramps: | bow[1] |
| Propulsion: | diesel |
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MV Serengeti is a Lake Victoria passenger and cargo ship operated by the Marine Services Company Limited of Mwanza, Tanzania.
Serengeti has a ramp in her bow for road vehicle access.[1] In design she is a vehicular and passenger ferry, but MSC operates her in tramp trade.[1]
She was built in 1988 for the Tanzania Railways Corporation Marine Division. In 1997 the Marine Division became a separate company, Marine Services Company Ltd.[2]
See also
- Transport in Tanzania
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "MV. Serengeti". Vessels. Marine Services Company Limited. http://mscltz.com/preview_008.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ↑ "Home". Marine Services Company Limited. http://mscltz.com/. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
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