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Ferries Virtue has ordered the construction of a fast ferry to the Incat
Vard confirmation the orders with Hapag- Lloyd Cruises for two new cruise ships of luxury for shipments
October 7, 2016
The company of Maltese navigation Ferries Virtue has ordered the construction of a ferry to the navalmeccanica society Australian Incat. This last one has announced that the new catamaran, of the length of 110 meters, will be the fifteenth fast ferry acquired one from the Maltese company and, with the maximum speed of 38 knots, will be the greatest fast catamaran that will operate in the Mediterranean connecting in about 90 Malta minutes to the Sicily, isolates in which currently Ferries Virtue scale the ports of Catania and Pozzallo.
The new ship will have an ability to 1.134 passengers. Moreover Incat has announced that the ferry, regarding the ships employed currently from Ferries Virtue, will relatively have an ability to advanced cargo of rotabili of +43% to the heavy vehicles and of +7% relatively to the cars. The construction of the catamaran will be started at the beginning of the next year and the delivery is previewed at the end of 2018.
While the navalmeccanica society Vard of the Fincantieri group has communicated that all are satisfied the conditions so that the contracts sign with the crocieristica company German Hapag- Lloyd Cruises of group TUI for the construction of two cruise ships of luxury for shipments become effectives. Draft of the orders sign last August for two unit of about 16.100 tons of tonnage that will be delivered in the first trimester of 2019 and in the last trimester of the same year ( on 26 August 2016).
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