Engineering:MV Serengeti
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Tanzania | |
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 |
Capacity: |
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.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV Serengeti.
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