the shipowning group Italian Messina begins the second series of investments in four new ships



In the ship yard of Jinhae of the STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. South Korean the ceremony of cut of the sheet of Jolly Titanio has been carried out, before the second series of four new container vessels ro-ro ordered from the shipowning group Italian Ignazio Messina & C. Spa in Korea. The car from cut in the Korean plant is started by Maria Garbarini of present the Messina company in Korea with the colleagues Leonardo Sciancalepore and Enrico Allieri (in charge of the project). The new ship is destined to enter in service, so as the three binoculars that will follow it, within the end of 2014.

Completed the first phase of the plan they give beyond 500 million dollars for the development and the modernization of the fleet of property with the commissioning of Jolly Quarzo to beginning 2013, last of the four ships clappers Italian flag with an ability to 3.900 teu, 6,350 linear meters of rotabile cargo, constructed in the Korean yard Daewoo ( on 21 February 2013), the shipowning group Messina of Genoa has officially given the go-ahead to the second phase of investments in new ships under construction near STX that will be characterized, as the first four always realized in Korea, from advanced technology and equipped of the most modern systems anti-pollution. Ships STX will be equipped among other things with a sophisticated and innovative system of cleansing of gases of drainage in port so as in navigation; they are therefore destined to obtain by the RINA the Greenplus qualification that certifys the maximum respect of the atmosphere.

The four new ships will be long 240 meters, wide 37,50 and will develop a speed of 21,5 knots fully loaded. They will have moreover of great operating flexibility, in particular of the maximum draught of 11,50 meters with a capacity of 45.200 tons that will allow 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 new units will be equipped 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.