Ignazio Messina & C. Spa have taken in delivery the fourth of a series of eight new portacontenitori ships ro-ro



Today the shipowning society Italian Ignazio Messina & C. Spa has taken in delivery the fourth of the eight new ships ro-ro portacontenitori ordered binoculars to the South Korean shipbuilding groups Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and STX Shipbuilding. Draft of Jolly Quarzo, that it has an ability to 3.900 teu, or 6,350 linear meters of rotabile cargo, that it follows the delivery of the units Jolly Diamante, Jolly Perla and Jolly Cristallo. The ships are long 240 meters, wide 37,50 and develop a speed of 21,5 knots fully loaded.

This series of new ships, that between largest with-ro they are never constructed in the world, marks a carried out authentication for Ignazio Messina, entrance for the first time on the market of the newbuilding with the main objective to realize in times breviums a total modernization of the property fleet.

The first four ships, entirely planned from the technicians of the genoese company under the guide of ingegner the Allieri, financed from Banca Carige the Group and constructed from DSME, are characterized by advanced technology and equipped of the most modern systems anti-pollution, as a sophisticated and innovative system of cleansing of gases of drainage in port and for this first to the world obtaining by the RINA the Greenplus qualification that certifys the maximum respect of the atmosphere. The ships have of great operating flexibility, in particular of the maximum draught of 11,50 meters with a capacity of 45.200 tons that allows the port of call also in those ports Africans (credited of strong potential development and on which the genoese company is more and more placing) that for the low backdrops and inadequate infrastructures of earth they cannot receive the great container vessels. The four twin units have of a cargo ramp with a capacity of 350 tons planned in order to allow the transport of exceptional cargos and system material until seven meters of height lowerdeck. All and the four ships fly Italian flag with class RINA and ABS, is joined the held International Registry near the Harbour office of Genoa and operated by crews mostly of Italian nationality. The total value of this first phase of the investment exceeds 300 million dollars.

Last the four ships will be realized by STX Shipbuilding and will be taken in delivery in 2014.

While the shipowning company Italian Premuda has announced that the connected Four Jolly Spa, that is participated to 50% with the same Ignazio Messina & C. Spa, has finalized yesterday contextually to the delivery by the Korean yard Samsung, the sale to third party of the new commissioned Suezmax construction tanker. The operation - it has explained the company - has determined (in reason of the selling price, strongly conditioned from the current one depressed level of the reference markets) a loss of which the Premuda quota it piles to about 9,5 million euros that will be understood in the budget of exercise 2012, without impacts on the position clean financial institution.