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Eimskip orders two new portacontainer from 875 teu
They will be constructed by the Chinese ship yard Rongcheng Shenfei Shipbuilding Co.
September 23, 2011
The shipowning company Icelandic Eimskip (The Icelandic Steamship Company) has ordered to the Chinese ship yard Rongcheng Shenfei Shipbuilding Co. of the Shenfei group, that it is situated in the province of Shandong, the construction of two new portacontainer from 875 teu. The ships, of 12.000 gross capacities in tons, will be long 140,7 meters, wide 23,2 meters and will have a speed of 18,3 knots.
The previewed total investment piles to about 50 million dollars. Eimskip has specified that the two portacontainer they will enter in activity in 2013 in the service Southern Route, that connects Iceland with the United Kingdom (Immingham) and Holland (Rotterdam), in substitution of the ships Brúarfoss and Selfoss that will come to transfer on other routes.
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The shipowning company Icelandic Eimskip (The Icelandic Steamship Company) has ordered to the Chinese ship yard Rongcheng Shenfei Shipbuilding Co. of the Shenfei group, that it is situated in the province of Shandong, the construction of two new portacontainer from 875 teu. The ships, of 12.000 gross capacities in tons, will be long 140,7 meters, wide 23,2 meters and will have a speed of 18,3 knots.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
