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Saturday has left from China before the five new with-ro of large-capacity ordered from the ACL
Is under construction in the ship yard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding
November 2, 2015
Saturday has left from China for its first travel the Atlantic Star, before five ships ro-ro/portacontainer of large-capacity, of the class G4 (Generation 4), than the company of Atlantic navigation Container Linens (ACL) of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has ordered to the Chinese ship yard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding and that the company will introduce in the services ocean-going liners in substitution of with-ro of the precedence generation G3( 13of August 2012).
the Atlantic Star, like next the four twin units, fly flag of the United Kingdom. The ship, of 81.600 tons of tonnage and 45.000 gross capacities in tons, is long 296 meters, wide 38 meters and has an ability to containerized cargo pairs to 3.800 teu and to rotabile cargo pairs to 28.900 square metres (1,307 cars).
the Atlantic Star will be christened to Liverpool and the other four ships of the series will be taken in delivery in the course of the first semester of the next year.
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