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!

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

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

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)

THERMOPYLAE vehicles carrier RoRo ship passing thru Kanmon Straits Japan

THERMOPYLAE is a vehicles carrier (RoRo ship) and was recently photographed passing thru the Kanmon Straits between Shimonoseki City and Kitakyushu City, Japan. Thermopylae is a large vessel, and while not as long as some others, is quite tall. It dwarfed the buildings and other ships and boats it passed on the afternoon of April 2, 2022. Photographed by Ship Freakazoid using an Olympus e520 DSLR with a 150mm Zuiko lens. Enjoy. A Wallenius Wilhelmsen vessel, Thermopylae is a vehicles carrier Roro ship Vessel Name: THERMOPYLAE Ship type: Vehicles Carrier / RORO Flag: Malta Gross Tonnage: 75283 Summer Deadweight (t): 23786 Length Overall: 200 meters Beam: 37 meters Built: 2015 IMO #: 9702443 Thermoylae vehicles carrier Roro ship passing under the Kanmon Kaikyo Bridge ...

JOSCO ALMA passing thru Kanmon Straits enroute to Osaka Japan from Zhoushan China

The container ship JOSCO ALMA was photographed by Ship Freakazoid as it was passing thru Kanmon Straits enroute to Osaka Japan from Zhoushan China on the morning of January 26, 2024. JOSCO ALMA container ship sailing under Flag of Kong Kong in Kanmon Straits After several gloomy winter days, there was finally some sunshine in the Garden Paradise Kitakyushu, so it was a perfect day to hit up some photo ops in Moji. Josco Alma is still new and good looking, having been built just two years before in 2022. Name: JOSCO ALMA IMO: 9931501 General vessel type: Cargo Detailed vessel type: Container Ship MMSI: 477811500 Call sign: VRUR3 Flag: Hong Kong [HK] Gross Tonnage: 9972 Summer DWT: 13713 t Length: 146 meters Width: 23.39 meters Year built: 2022 Josco Alma - Cargo ship registered in Hong Kong passing by Shimonoseki Japan The vessel Josco Alma in the Kanmon Straits of Moji Kitakyushu Japan Josco Alma c...

NYK FUTAGO container ship in Kanmon Straits at sunset

The Singapore flagged container ship NYK FUTAGO passed thru the Kanmon Straits of Japan on a lovely but hot (36C-97F) mid-September afternoon. The straits were calm. The air was heavy. The sunset was lovely. NYK Futago was glorious. NOTE: NO filters used & ZERO editing done (Photoshop etc.) Silhouette of container ship sailing at sunset - NYK FUTAGO This 267 meter long cargo ship was captured by Ship Freakazoid as it sailed through the Kanmon Strait between the Garden Paradise Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki at sunset on September 17, 2024. As per usual, SF used his trusty secondhand Olympus E-520 DSLR camera equipped with a Zuiko 150mm lens to photograph this lovely vessel. Settings in the above photo were: f/11 , ISO 100 , 1/1600 sec. NYK Futago passes by historic Ganryujima and phallic Kaikyo Yume Tower Japanese cities are notorious for having hideous towers in lovely places. Kyoto has a disgusting tower called, well, Kyoto Tower, which is a...

Ships of Kanmon Strait

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