Techno-Superliner (Japan, 1989 - 2005?)

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Japan's Jumbo Jet-Freighter of the Future

TOKYO, JAPAN-Japan's principal shipbuilders have joined forces with government researchers to create a high speed superfreighter that will leave existing cargo ships in its wake.

The Techno-Superliner is expected to be 330 ft. long. and carry more than 1000 tons of cargo at 50 knots.

Two versions are under consideration. Mitsubishi and Mitsui are examining a surface-effect variant, essentially a big hovercraft. Meanwhile, Kawasaki, IHI, NKK, Sumitomo and Hitachi are looking into a small-waterplane-area twin hull (SWATH) design to lift the hull above 6-ft. waves.

To meet its performance goals, the cargo ship will run on 25,000-hp gas turbine engines featuring ceramics and other advance materials. The engines, four per ship, should boast 60 percent thermal efficiency and need a third (of) the maintenance of conventional engines.

At full throttle, the Superliner's speed will be 2½ times the average speed of conventional container vessels. That pace will allow the ship to make the Tokyo-to-Taiwan run, normally a 3-day run, in less than 24 hours. Travel time to the U.S. would be cut to three days.

The researchers aim to turn the project over to a shipbuilder in 1993 and have a working Superliner by 2000.


Popular Mechanics, December 1990

http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=NOMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=Jet-Freighter+1990&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H3UAVJzrN8jC7AadpICoAg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Jet-Freighter%201990&f=false

EDIT/s:
http://www.jfe-21st-cf.or.jp/chapter_1/1a_2.html

http://www.mlit.go.jp/english/white-paper/unyu-whitepaper/1996/1996000009.html
 

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Due to further information, have altered topic title further.

http://www.marinelink.com/article/shipbuilding/japanese-industry-news-302
Japan's Techno-Superliner Progressing The development project for the Techno-Superliner (TSL), a high-speed cargo ship expected to play a leading part in high-speed marine transport in the future, has technical targets to have a speed of 50 knots; payload of about 1,000 tons; cruising range of 500 sea miles or more; and seaworthiness enabling it to safely navigate rough seas up to Sea State 6.

This R&D project was launched in FY 89, and the basic aspects of technical R & D work were substantially completed by FY 92. Steady progress has been made, and the Technological Research Association of the Techo-Super liner is confident that the targets will be reached. Two hull types have been developed specifically for the project: a hydrofoil-type hybrid hull (TSL-F), and an air cushion-type hybrid hull (TSL-A).

Sea tests are scheduled to be carried out for data unavailable from tank tests. Two model ships were built, one for each hull type. The TSLF hull type is represented by the model Hayate, and the TSL-A type by the model His ho. The Hayate was built jointly by five Japanese shipbuilders at the Kobe Shipyard of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and the work to build the Hisho was split between Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

https://nippon.zaidan.info/seikabutsu/2001/00815/contents/00003.htm

https://nippon.zaidan.info/seikabutsu/2006/00382/contents/0002.htm

http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMV/2005jul0252.html

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/isfp1989/2008/7-1/2008_7-1_121/_article

http://books.google.ie/books?id=3wcDzNJpXf0C&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=Mitsui+TSL&source=bl&ots=Y7uBLaRW9m&sig=llGj7tW_ZfBehAQrXoLUGLMyAQ8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_9YAVJSvJseN7AaYiIDgCg&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Mitsui%20TSL&f=false
 

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Strange thing though: http://maritime-connector.com/ship/super-liner-ogasawara-9287950/


EDIT: https://www.marinetraffic.com/ro/ais/details/ships/431402027/vessel:SUPER_LINER_OGASAWARA
 
Ah! I was not detailed enough in my text. It was not accepted for the run from Tokyo to the Ogasawara Islands. I guess it must have found some use after that - though the fact that its last reported run is in July 2011 up to Ishonomaki, Miyagi Prefecture could suggest it was reactivated to help with the relief efforts up there after the Tsunami.
 
Hi!
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E3%83%86%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=c7MDVLuuBcL48QXa64HYAg&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1349&bih=635

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_G-2mpp0g
 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZNRdlsQMs
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28l5QQ8scGM
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OjQ1MV0BZM
 
http://backcountry.image.coocan.jp/reports/32okayama/ogasawara.htm

http://www.jsea.or.jp/VariableJ/Sea309.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyhvdFz6zHM
 
Hi!
 

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Thanks, blackkite!

So, if I'm not misreading things, the Ogasawara is currently acting as a depot ship or similar at Mitsui's Tamano Works (which seems to be practically a MSDF shipyard/boneyard in all but name these days). Presumably the MSDF have leased her directly from her nominal owners, OgasawaraKaiun Co., Ltd.


starviking said:
Ah! I was not detailed enough in my text. It was not accepted for the run from Tokyo to the Ogasawara Islands. I guess it must have found some use after that - though the fact that its last reported run is in July 2011 up to Ishonomaki, Miyagi Prefecture could suggest it was reactivated to help with the relief efforts up there after the Tsunami.

It certainly would have had the capabilities needed for fast transport and rapid offload of bulk cargo, not to mention it's passenger facilities would have been very handy for bringing relief personnel into and evacuees out of badly affected areas.
 
Techno Super Liner Ogasawara visited Iwate Ishinomaki as rescue operations in case of the Great East Japan Earthquake which occurred in 2011.
TSL Ogasawara is moored to Etajima in Hiroshima Prefecture, and is waiting to be dissolved now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJI9yxyAsaI
 
Hi!
It is a photograph of the launching ceremony of Ogasawara in the Tamano shipyard of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding.
Of course, the fence which prevents the escape of air was added before and after the hull.
TSL Ogasawara marked 45knots(83km/h) in test cruise.

http://tamanokenki.blog4.fc2.com/blog-entry-331.html
 

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Hi! TSL Hayate(疾風).

http://www.jsme.or.jp/tld/home/topics/no009/Nl95-3-1.pdf
 

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TSL KIBO(希望, HOPE)(HISHO(飛翔, FLIGHT)). Ogasawara and Kibo were same concept ship.
 

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Hi Japanese wikipedia for TSL. Please try Japanese-English auto translater. ;)


http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC
 

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Hi! Ogasawara now 6/9/2014.
When checking with the demolition contractor, there was a reply that demolition of Ogasawara has not been begun yet.
Today I tried to access Ogasawara and failed. Local ferry port in Etajima is too far from Ogasawara. I only watched No.3 picture size Ogasawara ;D

And world heritage Ogasawara islands.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1362

https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=ogasawara+islands+world+heritage&biw=1352&bih=635&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=_k8KVPHnL8qjugTHj4DACw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg
 

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Hi!
広島市 : Hiroshima city,  呉市 : Kure city,  江田島 : Etajima, 岩国市 : Iwakuni city

Hiroshima city : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima

Kure city : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kure,_Hiroshima

Iwakuni city : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwakuni,_Yamaguchi
Then in 1952, the base officially became an air station of the United States Marine Corps. MCAS Iwakuni is also shared with the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. MCAS Iwakuni has an air station that many people in Iwakuni want to be made into a public international airport. However as of 2009, it is only authorized for military use.

In 2014, it is planned to move the U.S. Carrier Air Wing from Naval Air Facility Atsugi to Iwakuni which will further increase the size of the base.

Etajima : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etajima,_Hiroshima

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Naval_Academy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU2TP9HFh8s

Hiroshima city : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypspRlqoRFQ
 

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Hi Ogasawara! (7/9/2014)
 

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Next pictures.
 

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This ship was built being put in $130M and completed in 2005 announcing that it can shorten the one-way cruise from 25.5hours to 16.5hours in Tokyo-Ogasawara islands route. It weights 14,500tons, has 140m length, 30m width and accommodation for 742. It is an aluminum ship with the water jet engine. It will be abolished without any operations because of the substantial rise of oil price. 2,400 victims of Great Earthquake in Ishinomaki were invited to use it for free. The aluminum scrap is estimated at $33M.

http://www.dragtimes.com/video-viewer.php?v=UZxvk4BbF9w&feature
 

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Hi side view and water jet pump!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump-jet

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jime2001/39/12/39_12_811/_pdf

主ガスタービンエンジン : Main gas turbine engine, ウォータージェット : Water jet pump, 減速機 : reduction gear.
 

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Hi!
TSL Ogasawara was planned to use as the HSV for U.S. Marine Corps.
 

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Thanks again for the additional info, blackkite!

Looks like I was wrong about Ogasawara's current usage. Strange though that it is to be scrapped while the Ministry of Defence is practically screaming for such high speed assets, and more so in a competitor's (USC I presume) yard rather than at the Tamano Works. Someone clearing the way for their own pet project, I wonder?
 
Hi! Please enjoy full pages.
http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=aJT0gK710LwC&pg=PA552&lpg=PA552&dq=kamewa+water+jet+vwj&source=bl&ots=EQMPEoYW4h&sig=fdAveolII8zEZGyt8iWhAnhHfAU&hl=ja&sa=X&ei=vRgOVKKPA4SE8gXAuYCYAQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=kamewa%20water%20jet%20vwj&f=false
 

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Hi! Rolls-Royce Kamewa water jet.
http://www.rolls-royce.com/marine/products/propulsors/waterjets/kamewa_sl/

Rapid rise in price of kerosene which is the fuel of a gas turbine engine was fatal to TSL Ogasawara.
Ogasawara's main engine : GE LM2500+(CF6 base), 25,180kw×2.

LM2500+ engine.
http://www.geaviation.com/marine/engines/military/lm2500plus/

KaMeWa
http://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/enwiki/KaMeWa

If we get cheap LH2 or CH4 near future.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate
 

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Hi!
Alminum alloy body.
 

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