MV ACX Crystal
| History | |
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| Name: | ACX Crystal |
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| Port of registry: |
 Manila, Philippines |
| Builder: | STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, Changwon, South Korea |
| Yard number: | 1240 |
| Launched: | 20 June 2008 |
| In service: | August 2008 |
| Identification: |
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| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Container ship |
| Tonnage: | |
| Length: | 222.6 m (730 ft) |
| Beam: | 30.1 m (99 ft) |
| Draught: | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Installed power: | MAN-B&W 8K80MC-C, 28,880 kW (38,730 hp) |
| Speed: |
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| Capacity: | 2,858 TEU |
| Crew: | 20 |
ACX Crystal is a container ship built in South Korea in 2008. In June, 2017, the ship was damaged in a collision with USS Fitzgerald south of Yokosuka, Japan.
ACX Crystal is a container ship built in 2008 by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding at their Jinhae shipyard in Changwon, South Korea. The ship is 222.6 metres (730 ft) long overall, has a beam of 30.1 metres (99 ft) and fully laden draws 12 metres (39 ft) of water. She has a container capacity of 2,858 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), gross tonnage of 29,060, net tonnage of 14,422 and deadweight tonnage of 39,565 tons. Her main engine, manufactured by STX, is an 8-cylinder MAN B&W 8K80MC-C low-speed diesel engine with a maximum continuous rating of 28,880 kW (38,730 hp), giving ACX Crystal a maximum speed of 25.3 knots (46.9 km/h; 29.1 mph) and a service speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph).
The ship is classified by the Japanese classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) and insured with the Japanese Shipowners P&I Association.
ACX Crystal has been owned by Olympic Steamship Co SA, Panama (a subsidiary of Japanese shipowner Sunford Shipping Ltd) and managed by Sea Quest Ship Management Inc of Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines since 2008. The ship has been bareboat-chartered to Sinbanali Shipping Inc of Manila since 2014, but is reported by NYK Line on June 17 as being actually owned by Dainichi-Invest Corporation, a Japanese ship investment firm.ACX Crystal is a mid-size container ship employed by ACX ('Asia Container Express'), the intra-Asia container shipping trade subsidiary of NYK Line, the global shipping and freight logistics division of the Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi.
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