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Höegh Autoliners orders three PCTC to the ship yard Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry
They will have an ability to 8.500 cars and will be delivered beginning from 2015
January 21, 2013
The Norwegian company Höegh Autoliners has ordered to the Chinese ship yard Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry Co. (XSI) the construction of three Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC) of new generation, with option for other ships door-car. The units, of gabarit post-Panamax, will have an ability to 8.500 cars and will be delivered beginning from 2015. The managing director of the shipowning company, Ingar Skiaker, has specified that the new ships, equipped of remarkable flexibility and in a position to transporting a greater cargo variety, will be used in order to replace the oldest units of the fleet of Höegh Autoliners.
Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry has already constructed four PCTC for the Norwegian shipowning society, than it has taken them in delivery in 2010 and 2011.
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The Norwegian company Höegh Autoliners has ordered to the Chinese ship yard Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry Co. (XSI) the construction of three Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC) of new generation, with option for other ships door-car. The units, of gabarit post-Panamax, will have an ability to 8.500 cars and will be delivered beginning from 2015. The managing director of the shipowning company, Ingar Skiaker, has specified that the new ships, equipped of remarkable flexibility and in a position to transporting a greater cargo variety, will be used in order to replace the oldest units of the fleet of Höegh Autoliners.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
