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Launched a new ship ro-ro of the Turk Transport Alternatives
It will be introduced on the route between Turkey and Italy (Trieste)
November 29, 2016
In recent days in the ship yard of Flensburg of the German Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) the Meleq is launched, that it will be the sixth ship of the fleet of the Transport Alternatives, the company of navigation of the logistic group Turkish Ekol that carries out services ro-ro that they connect the Turkish ports of Istanbul, Izmir and Mersin with the Italian port of Trieste and the French Silk port.
The Meleq, that the next February will be taken in delivery, has a cargo ability of 4.100 linear meters of rotabili and will be introduced on the route between Turkey and Italy. The ship, of 32.600 gross capacities in tons, is long 210 meters and has the maximum speed of 21,3 knots.
In occasion of the value of the new ship, Ahmet Musul, president of Transport Alternatives and Ekol Logistics, have announced that the company will continue to invest inaugurating new marine routes and increasing the frequency of the current services. Moreover at the beginning of the next year a new terminal to Yalova will be inaugurated, on the Sea of Marmara.
In the yard of Flensburg it is while under construction another destined ship ro-ro to the Turkish company that will be delivered in 2018 and will be christened with the name of Fadiq. It is the Meleq that the Fadiq is ordered by the Siem group, that it stops the entire capital of the FSG and that in existence has with the Ekol group agreements of chartering for the two ships with purchase obligation.
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In recent days in the ship yard of Flensburg of the German Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) the Meleq is launched, that it will be the sixth ship of the fleet of the Transport Alternatives, the company of navigation of the logistic group Turkish Ekol that carries out services ro-ro that they connect the Turkish ports of Istanbul, Izmir and Mersin with the Italian port of Trieste and the French Silk port.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
