MV Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan is a Liberia-flagged floating power plant owned and operated by Karpowership. In 2016, she was launched from the Hat-San Shipyard in Altinova, Yalova, Turkey, marking the beginning of her mission to supply electricity to the Ghana power grid.
Cargo ship
The ship was built in 2000 as a bulk carrier by Samsung Shipbuilding in Geoje, South Korea. The 299 m long vessel has a beam of 50 m and a draft of 10.7 m. By 184,744 DWT, she has a cargo capacity of. She has an average speed of 6.9 kn at max. 8.5 kn.
The vessel was owned by the Australian company Teekay Shipping Australia in Sydney.
Powership
The Turkish company Karadeniz Holding purchased the vessel MV Pacific Triangle at the end of 2014 for US$17 million from Teekay Shipping. The bulk carrier was converted into a Powership with a generation capacity of 470 MW at Hat-San Shipyard in Altinova, Yalova. On November 13, 2016, the Powership, renamed MV Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan, sailed to Ghana in a ceremony attended by the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister