Fincantieri will realize an innovative ferry for the Canadian Société DES traversiers du Québec



The navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri has adjudicated an order of the Canadian Société DES traversiers du Québec (STQ) for the construction of a new ferry destined to operate on the Matane line - Bays - Comeau - Godbout. The store clerk, that USA 147 million dollars have a value of 148 million dollars Canadian (), are made official last week with the signature of the president and CEO of STQ, Georges Farrah, and from the director Navi Mercantili di Fincantieri, Gabriele Cocco. The ship will be delivered at the end of 2014.

In January the 2010 minister of the Transports of the Québec had adjudicated the contract for services of naval architecture and engineering to the consortium Deltamarin/Navtec finnico-Canadian, that the contest for this project has elaborated the preliminary plans according to. The public contest for the definition and the construction of the ship has taken place between January and june 2012.

"They are very pleased of the result of this very rigorous process of planning and construction of the new ship that will be engaged to Matane between almost three years", Farrah has declared. "The new ferry of 130 meters of length, that it will replace the Camille-Marcoux - has added - will have an ability to 800 passengers and 180 cars and very larger and better will be equipped. The its greater cargo volumes will be adapted better to all the types of vehicles. Crossing will be for the passengers a more pleasant experience".

"Fincantieri - it has commented Coconut - is particularly proud of this success that the confirmation to the technical vanguard and leader in the field of the ferries to high technology. From today, as well as in the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea and the Sea of the North, we will be you anticipate also in America North with extremely innovative producing, first to being employed in a particularly sensitive region for the conservation of the atmosphere, that it will assure a remarkable energy saving and a minimal level of pollution". Fincantieri has specified that the store clerk has not demanded the participation of the Italian agencies preplaces to favor the export and has benefitted of deep allocated within a program of great projects financed from the government of the Québec.

The Matane line - Bays - Comeau - Godbout, that it guarantees all the year the connections between Gaspé and North Shore, is realized by STQ with 115 people and a total of 1.600 travels per year for the transport of beyond 200.000 passengers and 116,000 vehicles.

Fincantieri has explained that the new ferry will be concentrated of technology and an innovation, because will more adopt the standards evolven in terms of energy saving and low environmental impact. Will be equipped of diesel-electric power plant, as the modern cruise ships. The four diesel groups of generation electrical worker will be of type "dual fuel" and will be able to work are to gas (Liquid Natural Gas - LNG) that to diesel navy oil. The two electric motors of propulsion will set in action propulsive of azimutal type, equipped everyone of two against-rotary propellers that, together with the cross-sectional propellers, will guarantee to the ferry an exceptional maneuverability. Such characteristics, joined to a complex and rich system of ramps and doors are to prow that to stern, will allow with the ship considerable ability to cargo and drainage in times many expresses. The ship will be certifyd with the highest class previewed from the international registries for this type of service and will have moreover the class freezes up 1 To and 1 AS for the propulsion, the highest level previewed from the same registries of classifies.