Launched the rinfusiera Sky of Italy of the group of Friend



Today in the Japanese ship yard Sanoyas Shipbuilding Corporation di Mizushima it is launched the handy-chief Sky of Italy of the Italian shipowning society of Friend. The ship, than - it has emphasized the group of Friend - is largest and innovative of the history of the company, it has a gross capacity of 117.000 tons, is long 245 meters and wide 43 meters. Draft - it has explained the Italian company - of the result "of a pluriennale collaboration between two industrial truths of first floor in the shipping international, that they have worked entirety in order to conceive a extremely innovative ship, characterized from details of extremely effective designs, imprinted on the respect of the atmosphere and energy efficiency in a position to pulling down of 20% consumption and emissions regarding the already operating ships in the same segment".

Of Friend it has announced that the value of the store clerk for the Sky of Italy and its handy-chief twin, that will be delivered in the first trimester 2016, is of about 100 million dollars (benefitting of the current one and favorable weakness of the yen in confronts of the dollar) and takes part of the more important development plan of the history of the group that sees in the biennium the 2014-2016 income in the fleet of 38 new ships, between bulker and tankers, for a total investment of about 1,2 billion dollars. The Italian company has explained that the project has been born in 2008 and has been in the years subordinate to various reviews by the group of Friend with the objective to ulteriorly improve the profile of efficiency of the handy-chief available on the market. Thanks to the job between the two technical departments and to that of trading company Mitsui & Co., in the 2013 ship completely it is redesigned and equipped of motorization completely electronic, of last generation, automatic control supply for the optimization of the consumption.

Of Friend it has specified that the choice by the group to head for the construction of two handy-chief of new generation "is dictated by the extraordinary polyvalency of this genre of ships, wider of traditional Post but more small of the Chief. Their versatilità, in terms of dimensions and ability to cargo - it has found the company - allows in fact a pluralità of uses is in the transported variety of goods is in the types of served routes. This peculiarity, joined to the extraordinary constructive characteristics, will allow with the society of Dry Friend, that it will manage the ship for the transport of raw materials, mainly coal and minerals, to increase of to the profit and the attractiveness on the market of the international routes". The Sky of Italy will be employed for a short time gives of Dry Friend to Time charter, until the delivery of its twin ship.

"We today celebrate - the managing director of the Italian group has commented, Cesar d' Amico - the delivery of the larger ship of the history of our group that ulteriorly consolidates our position of leadership between the young and innovative fleets in the total panorama. The extraordinary engagement in searching a level still higher than safety, attention to the atmosphere and performance, shared with a partner of absolute reliability as Sanoyas Shipbuilding Corporation, today allows us to introduce on the market a ship from the only characteristics that fixed a new standard of category for the future of the shipping in this segment".

"We are very happy - the president of Sanoyas Shipbuilding Corporation has declared, Takashi Ueda - for living this memorable day of the delivery of the Sky of Italy together with our partner of the group of Friend; one of the societies of navigation more reliable and known the world. The Sky of Italy has had a splendid debut in the shipping. After to have on board made a small tour with our hosts, I have been able to personally state the excellent results obtained from the collaboration between the three societies: of Friend, Mitsui and Sanoyas. I believe that our relationships of collaboration will always grow more and hope that our optimal relations will still continue for many years".