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German ship yard FSG of Flensburg acquires an order for a new ferry
It is emitted by the Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd.
June 25, 2012
The German ship yard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. (FSG) has obtained an order of the value of 42 million pounds of the public company Scottish Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd. (CMAL) for the construction of a new ferry that will enter in service in 2014 (with delivery previewed in June) on the route that connects the port of Ullapool, in Scotland north-western, with the port of Stornoway, on the island of Lewis (Ebridi).
The new ship will be long 116 meters and will be able to transport 700 passengers and 372 linear meters of rotabili (143 cars or 26 trucks). CMAL will rent the ship to the company Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac Ferries Ltd. - CFL), that it carries out the marine service.
The managing director of the German yard, Peter Sierk, has emphasized that, obtaining this order, once again FSG has been able to beat the competition of many international ship yards: "for the customer - he has explained - to instead operate this route with a single ship that with two it is the more economic solution. However so making the new ferry it must be able to satisfy requirements on a daily basis much high one", that is - it has specified - besides the quality, the ship must be most reliable possible so as to avoid delays on the technical timetables and arrest warrants. "It is extremely important for our customer - it has evidenced Sierk - to be able to supply the best possible service to those which to they time is its customers, that is the passengers. And it is for that it has to us chosen: because we can offer just this type of reliable ship".
Currently the pocketbook orders of the German ship yard, as well as by the ferry for CMAL, is constituted by two ships ro-ro for the Turk Ulusoy Sealines, a ship ro-ro for Turk U.N. Ro-Ro, a ship with-ro for a Canadian company, two multipurpose ships for the Rolldock Dutch and two seismic ships for the British WesternGeco.
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The German ship yard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. (FSG) has obtained an order of the value of 42 million pounds of the public company Scottish Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd. (CMAL) for the construction of a new ferry that will enter in service in 2014 (with delivery previewed in June) on the route that connects the port of Ullapool, in Scotland north-western, with the port of Stornoway, on the island of Lewis (Ebridi).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
