Shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan, South Korea
AOTEAROA is a purpose-built, technologically enhanced asset that will add real value to the Royal New Zealand Propulsion System Combined Diesel Electric and Diesel (CODLAD) provided by 2 x Bergen B33:45L9P diesels Navy’s combat operations, humanitarian relief functions supplemented by and operational and training support. She will provide 2 x electric power take in motors. 2 x flap rudders and 2 x controllable pitch propellors global sustainment to New Zealand and coalition maritime, land and air units, and United Nations security Power generation 4 x 2.6MW MTU 20V4000M53B, 1 x 410kw STX KTA19DMGE emergency generator operations through resupply of ship and aviation fuel, dry goods, water, spare parts and ammunition. Length 173.2 metres
Beam 24.5 metres
Her many capabilities include the ability to carry up to 22 x twenty foot shipping containers, high capacity fresh water Draught 8.4 metres generation plants (enough to produce 100 tonnes per day), Displacement (full) 26,000 tonnes self-defence systems, aviation and marine fuel cargo tanks, dual all-electric replenishment at sea rigs, a SH-2G(NZ) Range 6,750 nautical miles Seasprite or NH90 medium utility helicopter, integrated Design speed 16 knots communications and bridge systems, an integrated platform management system and winterisation features such as Total liquid cargo 9,500 tonnes capacity some upper deck trace heating and an ice-strengthened hull and underwater fittings. Dry goods cargo 22 x twenty foot equivalent units capacity Aotearoa will utilise a world-first naval “Environship” leadge Core Crew 64 bow design. This design incorporates a new wave-piercing bow which reduces resistance and lowers fuel burn, while Bunks 100 (including 2 in the sick bay and a VIP cabin) its Combined Diesel Electric and Diesel propulsion plant has lower fuel emissions than older vessels. Her Selective THE NAVY’S LARGEST EVER SHIP: Catalytic Reducers will reduce harmful NOx exhaust emissions, and she has been built to adhere to Polar Code A comparison safety regulations and is ice strengthened to Polar Class with some level 6 for Southern Ocean monitoring and Antarctic of the RNZN operations including the resupply of McMurdo Station and fleet past and present Scott Base.
New Plymouth will be the Home Port of Aotearoa which
continues the long standing relationship the Navy have had with the wider Taranaki area.
Dame Patsy Reddy, Governor General of New Zealand, is