MV Karadeniz Powership Zeynep Sultan

The MV "Karadeniz Powership Zeynep Sultan" is a Liberia-flagged Powership, a floating power plant, owned and operated by Karpowership. Built in 1984 by the Valmet Oy Helsingin Telakka in Vuosaari, Helsinki, Finland and christened MV "Pavel Antokolsky", she sailed as a barge carrier under various names and flags until in 2015 she was converted into a Powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey. She is commissioned to supply electricity to the power grid in Amurang, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Barge carrier.
She was built by the Valmet Oy Vuosaari shipyard in Helsinki, Finland with yard number 315 as a barge carrier (LASH carrier) in September 1984. The (LOA) long vessel has a beam of , a depth of and a draft of registered. Two four-stroke diesel engines with nine single-acting cylinders of Type 9R32 (230x310) manufactured by the Finnish Wärtsilä Diesel Oy give a total of on two screws propelling the vessel at . By tonnage, she has a cargo capacity of .
She saw service under the names "Pavel Antokolsky", "Smit Explorer" and "Explorer" before she was sold in 2011 to Karpowership.
Powership.
The originally barge carrier was converted into a Powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul. She was renamed "Karadeniz Powership Zeynep Sultan" (KPS11). The construction cost was partly financed by a credit in amount of US$75 million shared by the German Investment Corp. (DEG), Netherlands Development Finance Co. (FMO) and Cordiant Capital Inc./ICF International. She has a generation capacity of 125 MW on dual-fuel (HFO- and gas-fired). The vessel is registered under the Liberian flag with homeport Monrovia.
On 27 October 2015, the Powership set sail to Jakarta, Indonesia departing from Istanbul following a farewell ceremony, at which another Powership of the fleet, the KPS7 – Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül Sultan, weighed anchor to head to Ghana. Karadeniz Powership Zeynep Sultan arrived to Jakarta by the end of November 2015, and sailed to Amurang, where she is helping to resolve the perennial power cuts in North Sulawesi.