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The larger dry dock of the western Mediterranean will be ready to september to Marseilles
They could be repaired long ships until 465 meters
June 24, 2016
The Harbour Authority of Marseilles has announced that today, with its first contact with water, a decisive step for the restoration in exercise of the dry dock is completed n. 10 that will be able to receive long ships until 465 meters and that therefore, when the next september enters in service, will be the greatest basin for maintenance and repairs of ships of the western Mediterranean. The basin will be managed by the Chantier Naval de Marseille (CNM) of genoese Saint George of the Port, than in the French port work already from the 2010 basins n. 8 and n. , first of the length of 320 meters and the second and 9 width of 50 meters of 250 for 37 meters.
The harbour agency has emphasized that the basin n. 10 will be able to in the first instance serve the market of the cruises since in the Mediterranean an increasing number of great cruise ships arrives, with 65% of the world-wide fleet of ships of great dimensions that is concentrates in this area that up to now does not anticipate basins of repair of adapted dimensions, but could be used also for all the other types of commercial ships - between which portacontainer, liquefied gas tankers and portarinfuse - and for means and the systems of the offshore industry.
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The Harbour Authority of Marseilles has announced that today, with its first contact with water, a decisive step for the restoration in exercise of the dry dock is completed n. 10 that will be able to receive long ships until 465 meters and that therefore, when the next september enters in service, will be the greatest basin for maintenance and repairs of ships of the western Mediterranean. The basin will be managed by the Chantier Naval de Marseille (CNM) of genoese Saint George of the Port, than in the French port work already from the 2010 basins n. 8 and n. , first of the length of 320 meters and the second and 9 width of 50 meters of 250 for 37 meters.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
