KPS-26 IREM SULTAN (IMO 8222252)
She was built by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in Venice, Italy with yard number 305 as a barge carrier (LASH carrier) in April 1984.
As
NIKOLAY MARKIN for Ukrain Denube Shipping Co Izmail Ukrain USSR.
1992 Sold/Transferred to Danube Express Co Ltd Valletta Malta,
,renamed
DANUBE EXPRESS.
1998 Sold to Smit Shuttle Express Ltd Valletta Malta, renamed
SMIT ENTERPRISE.
2000 Sold/Transferred to Smith International Singapore Pte Ltd Singapore.
2001 Sold/Transferred to Smith International Eminent Carrier NV Nassau Bahamas.
2003 Sold to Dockwise Enterprise BV ( Angelo Eastern UK Ltd Glasgow as manager ) Willemsted Netherland Antilles, renamed
ENTERPRISE.
The originally barge carrier was converted into a Powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul as the fifth of the fleet.
She was renamed
Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan or
KPS-26 IREM SULTAN, the vessel is registered under the Liberian flag with homeport Monrovia.
She has a generation capacity of 114 MW on dual-fuel (HFO- and gas-fired).
In October 2011, the Powership sailed to Basra, Iraq, where she supplied electricity for about one million residents there in a timespan of three years.
Two vessels of the fleet, MV Karadeniz Powership Doğan Bey (126 MW) and MV Karadeniz Powership Rauf Bey (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.
In November 2022 it was stationed in Havana, Cuba.
In 2023 it was sent to the Dominican Republic.
Karpowership signed its first project in the Dominican Republic in 2022’s last quarter to generate 180 MW of electricity in the Dominican Republic.
The company is operational in Azua since 2023.
We are in the Dominican Republic with 2 powerships which are the:
KPS-26 IREM SULTAN and KPS-60 ESRA SULTANPhotograph of the two power generation barges, owned by the Turkish company Karadeniz Powership, which have started operating near Puerto Viejo, on May 14, 2023, in Azua (Dominican Republic).
Location: 18°20'46.1"N 70°50'18.0"WIn google maps you can't see the boats, because google didn't update the area.
BUT I ASSURE YOU THAT THE BOATS ARE THERE!!!!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Karadeniz_Powership_%C4%B0rem_Sultanhttps://www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/enterprise.261152/https://efe.com/medio-ambiente/2023-05-23/sostenibilidad-y-salud-o-generacion-electrica-dilema-dominicano/