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Stena buys the ferries Superfast VII and Superfast VIII
The ships will be yielded by the Tallink for 133,5 million euros
July 17, 2017
Stena, group leader of the company of Danish navigation Stena Line, will buy the ferries Superfast VII and Superfast VIII that the same company currently employs on the route that connects the ports of Belfast and Cairnryan. The ships will be yielded for a total of 133,5 million euros from the Estonian group Tallink that give August 2011 have rented them to the Stena Line.
The two ships will become of property of the Stena in the course of the next December. Until now on the Belfast-Cairnryan route passengers have carried out 23,000 travels transporting 6,4 million, 1,4 million motors vehicle and a million cargo unit.
The ferries Superfast VII and Superfast VIII have been both constructed in 2001. The two twin ships are long 203 meters, wide 25 meters and can transport 171 passengers and 1,924 linear meters of rotabili to the speed of beyond 27 knots.
Stena has specified that the acquisition of the two Superfast takes part of the development plan of the fleet of the company that includes the ships of new construction that they are ordered last year to Chinese ship yard AVIC Shipyard ( on 5 April 2016).
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