SSTH Ocean Arrow
watercraft
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- SSTH Ocean Arrow
- IMO number
- 9164433
- MMSI
- —
- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- watercraft
- Gross tonnage
- 1,674
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 72.1 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1998
- Builder
- IHI Corporation
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About SSTH Ocean Arrow
SSTH Ocean Arrow is a super slender twin hull (SSTH) car ferry operating in Japan. Prof. Hideaki Miyata at Tokyo University developed the SSTH, a high-speed catamaran-hulled boat, as a joint work with IHI Corporation. It entered service in 1998 between Kumamoto and Shimabara. The trip takes about 30 minutes, or about half the time that it had previously taken. Despite their prevalence in Europe, previous attempts to bring a fast ferry to Japan had failed due to wake wash and wave damage in the Japanese coastal areas. In Ireland, a swimmer was drowned in one instance which was thought to be caused by wake wash from a fast-moving ferry.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is SSTH Ocean Arrow now?
- SSTH Ocean Arrow has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is SSTH Ocean Arrow?
- SSTH Ocean Arrow is a watercraft, built in 1998 by IHI Corporation. The vessel is 72.1 m long and has a gross tonnage of 1,674.
- Has SSTH Ocean Arrow been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for SSTH Ocean Arrow appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).