Coeclerici took delivery of the bulk Zambezi, a new ship transhipment of the latest generation designed by the same Italian company that has taken over these days in China, where it was built by the shipyard Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry Co, where now part of Mozambique at a time.
The Zambezi is the bulk of the first two sister ships that will operate in the port of Beira in Mozambique to serve the Brazilian mining giant Vale. .
The two sister ships are designed to be Coeclerici to meet the limits of the port of Beira and infrastructure to enable you to optimize the economic and environmental point of view, the logistics of moving coal from the mine Moatize (Mozambique), licensed That group, importing countries around the world, particularly Brazil, India, Japan and Europe.
The Bulk Zambezi, of 55,000 deadweight tons, is equipped with five cranes, five buckets, eight conveyor belts, a self-propelled belt loader of 37 meters and has a capacity of 3,000 tons of coal transported per hour and about six million tons of coal transported in a year. The ship, the type Supramax bulk carrier, is flying the Italian flag and has been certified by RINA.
The Bulk Zambezi in Africa which will be operational by the end of next month, will load the coal from the pier of the port of Beira and take him to anchor offshore areas located approximately 20 miles from the coast where at any draft, the unit transhipment can load large ocean vessels transporting (Capesize).
Mate for the second unit, the delivery is expected by January 2012 and will be operational in Africa by the first half of the year.
The project was awarded to Coeclerici in 2009 through an international tender called by the group Vale and is further evidence of the ability of the Italian group to assert its know-how in the world through marine engineering solutions designed specifically to address the limitations orographic developing countries and allow for economic growth and progress.
The contract signed by Coeclerici, which lasts twenty years and provides for the transport of some 12 million tons of coal per year, is part of a wider investment project that the group is worth making the whole area of Moatize - located in the northwestern part of Mozambique - following the award conferred in 2007 by the Government of the African nation for the exploitation of coal deposits in the region of Tete, which have coal reserves of about one billion tons.
The project also envisages the development Moatize entire transport infrastructure network of the raw material from the mine to the port of Beira, the construction of new storage area and the modernization of the coal terminal at the port of Beira, for a total investment of approximately $ 1.2 billion representing 12% of gross domestic product of Mozambique in 2008.
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Coeclerici took delivery of the bulk Zambezi, a new ship transhipment of the latest generation designed by the same Italian company that has taken over these days in China, where it was built by the shipyard Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry Co, where now part of Mozambique at a time. 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
