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of Friend International Shipping it announces the launch of two new tankers ECO
They are constructed by the Vietnamese Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard Co.
May 23, 2014
Yesterday in the Vietnamese ship yard Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard Co. two new tankers are launched of which the first, the High Sun of 50.000 gross capacities in tons ordered in March 2013, it is delivered Eco Tankers Ltd yesterday. (Malta), joint venture participated with 67% from the Venice Shipping and Logistics and with 33% from of Friend International Shipping (DIS), while the second ship, the High Fidelity of 50.000 gross capacities in tons, will be delivered to Friend Tankers Limited (Ireland) in the course of third trimester 2014.
of Friend International Shipping it has specified that both the ships have been already fixed with contracts of along term with one of the more important society than refining to the world, for a period respective three-year-old and two years to extremely profitable every day rates.
DIS has explained that the two new units, beyond to being to double hull and IMO II, belong to a new generation of ships that characterize for consumption many low and that this project HMD derives from the last concept of form hull and propulsive efficiency that carries the ships to a saving of 6/7 tons to the fuel day regarding the average of the existing fleet of the same type. The ships have an index of energy efficiency (EEDI) of 31.5% at the best maximum inferior of applicable reference IMO and, therefore, already wide inside of the reduction of the index previewed from phase 3 of IMO (- 30%), that it will be applied to the ships constructed after on January 1, 2025.
Currently - the managing director of DIS, Marco Fiori has asserted - the company is "finding on the market an increasing asks for this type of ships of new generation, by the more important oil companies and of the main operators of market. These ships - it has found - afford, in fact, meaningful savings in the cost of the bunker and a considerable reduction in the emissions of co2 thanks to their only design that is the result of a grip collaboration between the technical direction of the Group of Friend and the professionals of the yard Hyundai Mipo".
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Yesterday in the Vietnamese ship yard Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard Co. two new tankers are launched of which the first, the High Sun of 50.000 gross capacities in tons ordered in March 2013, it is delivered Eco Tankers Ltd yesterday. (Malta), joint venture participated with 67% from the Venice Shipping and Logistics and with 33% from of Friend International Shipping (DIS), while the second ship, the High Fidelity of 50.000 gross capacities in tons, will be delivered to Friend Tankers Limited (Ireland) in the course of third trimester 2014.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
