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DL LOTUS - LPG Tanker in the Kanmon Straits

LPG tankers often provide a welcome and bright color splash on the backdrop of the polluted Kitakyushu skies. The Korean vessel DL LOTUS is one such ship.

DL LOTUS and Kanmon Buoy #24 - Matching Color Schemes!
DL LOTUS and Kanmon Buoy #24 - Matching Color Schemes!

Can you spot the two crew members in blue clothing and yellow hardhats? They were either working, or just taking in the sights of the Garden Paradise Kitakyushu as their ship DL Lotus sailed past on the Kanmon Strait.

DL LOTUS sailing poast Ganryujima and Shimonoseki
DL LOTUS sailing poast Ganryujima and Shimonoseki

Vessel Name: DL LOTUS 
Length: 109.95 meters 
Width: 16.83 meters 
IMO: 9353979 
Flag: Liberia 
MMSI: 441453000 
Type: LPG Carrier 
Call Sign: 5LFP8 
Gross Tonnage: 5665 tons 
Deadweight: 4998 tons 
Year Built: 2008 
Builder: Sasaki Shipbuilding (Hiroshima, Japan) 
Owner: Daelim (Seoul, Korea) 
Manager: NDSM (Busan, Korea)

An LPG tanker helping Kitakyushu pollute its skies
An LPG tanker helping Kitakyushu pollute its skies

Here is a photo of DL Lotus helping Kitakyushu's factories pollute Kitakyushu even further. Jimi Hendrix definitely wrote the song Purple Haze about Kitakyushu. No doubt about it. None whatsoever. Ask him!

DL LOTUS (IMO 9353979)
DL LOTUS (IMO 9353979)


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