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The Grendi Group introduces a new ship on the Go-Cagliari route
The "Future Ark" will be employed, that it has a capacity of 2.300 linear meters or 650 teu
January 13, 2012
Tomorrow the Grendi Group will introduce in own service that connects the ports of Savona Vado and Cagliari the Future Ark, ship ro-ro of the Danish group DFDS that is taken rental by the Italian society and that it will replace the motor-ship Blue Wave sold from Grendi a Turkish operator and that will exit at the end of the month from the Go-Cagliari line.
Future Ark is constructed in 1996 in Italy from the Visentini yards and today it fly Danish flag. The ship is long 183 meters, has a tonnage of 18.000 tons, a gross capacity of 13.500 tons and has a speed of beyond 18 knots. Future Ark has a capacity of 2.300 linear meters or 650 teu and represents an increase of the capacity of the 100% regarding the ship Blue Wave to demonstration that, in spite of the crisis - it has emphasized the Italian group - continuous Grendi to believe in own service and invests for its development.
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