Covertainer Concept

A New Generation Bulk-Cargo Transportation Concept

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Liquid Bag for Tanker

  • New design tanker vessel not require cargo tank washing.
  • Building and management costs are reduced.
  • Able to load next cargo immediately after discharge her cargo.
  • Operation risks are reduced.

Liquid Bag for General Cargo

  • Solving short cargo problem of general cargo vessels.
  • Ship is able to carry liquid cargoes.
  • Increase cargo opportunities.
  • Does not require cargo hold washing/cleaning for liquid cargoes.

Slop Bag for Tankers

  • Solving empty voyage problem of Slop tank.
  • The bag remove out once slop transfer completed from tank to shore.
  • Tank immediately ready to load next cargo without tank washing/cleaning.

Sewage Bag General

  • Providing temporarly solution to vessels for collect the sewage without Ballast tank cleaning requirement.

Benefits Covertainer

Covertainer system provides more reliable and effective cargo transportation opportunity.

Comparision

Category Chemical Tanker Washing Covertainer
Cost 120k USD 80k USD
Consumed Time 4 Days None
Risks High Low
Chemical Dumping to the Sea 1.5 m3 ZERO
Carbon Emission 26.1 t ZERO
Adoption to Autonomous Not Possible Possible
Fresh Water Consumption 55 tons ZERO
Calculation made for 20 tanks standard grade, marine line 20000 dwt vessel
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R&D

Covertainer is just a large size new generation elastic Container, Nothing Else

We are developping Covertainer and it’s unique cargo operation concept

READ OUR MANIFESTO BELOW

Manifesto

OPEN CALL

Dear Readers;

I’m Oceangoing Chemical Tanker Captain Guner Kara. I and My Team mates have been, working and developing for two years on a project which is eliminating Chemical Tankers’ cargo tank washing operations. We are trying to reach Washing-free transportation.                                                                                                             

I’m preparing an article to increase maturity of this project. You can see below some parts of my article. 

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After completion of the discharge, 75lt chemical cargo may remain in chemical tanker cargo tank as per Marpol rules.*

*Marpol Annex II / Regulation 12 Pumping, piping, unloading arrangements and slop tanks / Page 21

 

This chemical residue, discharged into the sea via ship’s underwater discharge line, at 12 NM from shore, 7knt under speed and more than 25meters depth of the sea.**

**Marpol Regulation 13 / Control of discharges of residues of Noxious Liquid Substances / Page 23

If this vessel has 20 pieces cargo tanks, 1.5 ton chemical cargo residue will be disposed into the sea. If this vessel performs 10 voyages per year, 15 tons chemical disposes in to the sea while tank washings annually.

Around the world, if we consider 10.000 pieces vessel perform same operation, approximately 150.000 tons chemical are disposed into the sea annually.  

 

Styrene monomer and vinyl monomer is the base of plastic. These are used for PVC, glue and plastic paint production. These are carried in liquid form in chemical tankers and, if mixed with salty sea water, it turns to mucus form. One of the biggest sources of micro plastics in the seas is present transportation system.

- Like Phenol, Acrylonitrile cargoes are cancerogenic and highly dangerous for human health.                                                All cargoes’ residues which we counted above discharged into the sea during cargo tank washings after unloading. All them of are common cargoes in world transportation. 

The cargoes which stated as “Chemical” and Dischargeable cargoes in to the sea listed in IBC Code Chapter17.****. ****MEPC 64/23/Add.1Annex 12, page 2 / MEPC 64/WP.12 Chapter 17 of the IBC Code

                                                                        

Even the Ship performs washing operation with more than 7 knots; the chemical residue continues to keep its position and is not splitting. Fish and other sea life have to swim in a chemical pool. Some parts of the discharged chemical evaporates by air temperature while remain chemical residue fall down timely to the bottom of the sea due to its heavier density and become reason of diminishing the oxygen level of the sea bottom.

Around the world today more than 80.000 vessels exist at 5000DWT and more scale and approximately 20% of them are Chemical Tankers.

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Even if we become success on our project, maybe we can handle 10 or may be 20 different cargoes till 2030. Unfortunately there is almost 1000 different cargo existing in IBC Code and we are discharging them all.

Shortly, I wish this project had begun in 2000s and it looks like unfortunately we already missed the train. I’m not sure can we reach to all cargoes till 2040, till 2050.

But we must take attention of the people for this situation.

I would like to thank to Prof Dr Ozcan Arslan (ITU), Prof Dr Leyla Tavacioglu (ITU), Prof Dr Rafet Emek Kurt(Strathclyde, UK),     Dr Cagri Unal (DEHUKAM) who support my article preparation. 

Best Regards

Capt. Guner Kara

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Our Team

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CEO Capt Guner Kara

Founder of Covertainer

Operational Team

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COO MSI Capt. İlker Erkan

Co-Founder

Operational Team

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Doruk Sazer

Financial Advisor

Operational Team

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TSI - Ioannis Thrasyvoulou

Technical Advisor

Tecnichal Team

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Kemal Kaymul

Mechanical Engineer

Engineering Team

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Deniz Yılmaz

Mechanical Engineer

Engineering Team

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Batuhan Yılmazer

Mechanical Engineer

Engineering Team

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Vladimer Chikhadze

Mechanical Engineer

Engineering Team

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Koos Van Der Linden

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Law Team

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Çağrı Ünal

Maritime Law Regulation Expert

Law Team

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ITU - Prof. Dr. Leyla Tavacıoglu

Academic Advisor

Advisor Team

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ITU - Prof. Dr. Özcan Arslan

Academic Advisor

Advisor Team

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Strathclyde - Dr Rafet Emek Kurt

Academic Advisor

Advisor Team

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The University of Sydney - Dr. Umut Rende

Genetic Engineer

Advisor Team

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Semih Özşahin

Animations Info-grafic

Designer Team

Project Timeline

  • 2017

    Ideation

  • 2020

    Covertainer Project Documented

  • 2023

    Patent Application

  • 2023

    First Image

  • 2023

    First Tarpaulin Prototype

  • 2024

    TIM-TEB and Sabanci Arf Acceleration Programs

  • July 2024

    2nd prize in the 100th anniversary project competition

  • December 2024

    Partnership with Sabancı Arf

    December 2024

    First Animated Video

Captain's Rebellion

Blog & News

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July 2024

2nd prize in the 100th anniversary project competition

We would like to thank the Chamber of Shipping and everyone who support our project. This was the first competition, but it won't be last. Covertainer continues to offer new horizons to all stakeholders of the Maritime Industry.

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December 2024

News About us

We proudly took our place in the September 2024 magazine of the Chamber of Shipping with the Covertainer project

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Contact

COVERTAINER TAŞIMACILIK A.Ş.

Antalya Office Address : Öğretmenevleri, 910. Sk. No:11, 07040 Konyaaltı/Antalya

İstanbul Office Address : Sabancı Holding; Levent, 4, Sabancı Center, 34330 Beşiktaş/İstanbul

Amsterdam Office Address : Valeriusplein 22 H, 1075BH, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Web : www.covertainer.com

Email : info@covertainer.com

Phone : +90 533 744 26 26