The MV ''Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan'' is a

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-flagged

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, a floating power plant, owned and operated by

Karpowership Karpowership is a Turkish builder, operator, and owner of a fleet of powerships. Since 2010, 36 powerships have been completed with their total installed capacity exceeding 6,000 MW and further capacity under construction (or scheduled). Karpow ...

. Built in 1984 by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in

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, Italy and christened MV ''Nikolay Markin'', she sailed as a barge carrier under various names and flags until in 2014 she was converted into a powership at the

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, Turkey. She served in

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supplying electricity to Mozambique's power grid for land-locked

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. Currently, she serves in the Dominican Republic, and is stationed in Santo Domingo.

Barge carrier

She was built by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in

, Italy with yard number 305 as a barge carrier (LASH carrier) in April 1984. The (

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) long vessel has a beam of , a depth of and a draft of registered. Two diesel engines of Type GMT BL230.12V (230x310) and two of Type GMT BL230.8V (230x310) manufactured by the Grandi Motori Trieste in

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, Italy give a total power of propelling the vessel at . By and 7982 NT, she has a cargo capacity of . She saw service under the names ''Nikolay Markin'', ''Danube Express'', ''Smit Enterprise'' and ''Enterprise'' before she was sold in August 2010 to Karpowership.

Powership

The originally barge carrier was converted into a Powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul as the fifth of the fleet. The construction cost 110 million. She was renamed ''Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan''. The vessel is registered under the Liberian flag with homeport

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. She has a generation capacity of 114 MW on

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( HFO- and gas-fired). In October 2011, the Powership sailed to

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, Iraq, where she supplied electricity for about one million residents there in a timespan of three years. Two vessels of the fleet, (126 MW) and (180 MW), were already stationed in Iraq to bridge power shortage. In November 2015, Karpowership was awarded a contract to supply electricity to land-locked Zambia via cross-border interconnected transmission lines through Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Powership started delivering electricity in March 2016, within less than 4 months from contract signing. The contract was to initially supply 100 MW of base load power. In March 2018, upon the completion of the contract with Zambia, Karpowership signed a new contract with Mozambique’s electricity utility company, Electricdade de Mozambique (EdM) to supply 48 MW of base load power for 5 years. A similar ship will be built for

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. In November 2022 she is stationed in the Dominican Republic off of Santo Domingo.

Ship's registry

* ex-MV ''Nikolay Markin'' owned by Ukrainian Danube Shipping Co. based in

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, Ukraine registered in the

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with homeport

until June 14, 1992, * ex-MV ''Danube Express'' owned by Ukrainian Danube Shipping Co. based in

, Ukraine registered in

Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...

with homeport

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until July 1998, * ex-MV ''Smit Enterprise'' owned by Smit Transport & Heavy Lift B.V. based in

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, Netherlands registered in the

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with homeport Nassau until July 2003, * ex-MV ''Enterprise'' owned by Dockwise Shipping based in

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, Netherlands registered in the

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with homeport

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until August 2010.

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