''NYK Vega'' is a

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, operated by

Nippon Yusen Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan Mail Shipping Line), also known as NYK Line, is a Japanese shipping company and is a member of the Mitsubishi ''keiretsu''. The company headquarters are located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It operates a flee ...

Ship Management. The vessel has a capacity of 8,600 containers in company calculations and 9,012 TEU in International Maritime Organization calculations. The difference comes from the use of a different method of stowing in checking the ship's stability.

Design

''NYK Vega'' was built in 2006 by Hyundai Heavy Industries, when it was one of the largest and most modern container carriers of the world shipping, at long, wide and a fully loaded draft of . The

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of ''NYK Vega'' is about 94,000 metric tons and the gross tonnage of the ship is 97,825. She has a maximum speed of and a cruising speed of . ''NYK Vega'' is powered by MAN B&W 12K98MC engines with a power of . She sails under the

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nian flag.

Bridge equipment

Navigation is carried out using two electronic charts which integrate

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dGPS Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPSs) supplement and enhance the positional data available from global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs). A DGPS for GPS can increase accuracy by about a thousandfold, from approximately to . DGPSs ...

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and ARPA, which usually allows the position of the ship to be plotted with an accuracy of 100 meters. ''NYK Vega''’s computers also assist in the efficient loading and unloading of the cargo and containers.

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