The shipowning group Grimaldi has taken in delivery Large new PCTC the New York



In recent days the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has taken in delivery Large the New York, Pure Car & Truck Carrier constructed in the Chinese ship yard Jinling di Nanjing. Second of a store clerk of three twin units, the new ship has a length of 199,90 meters, a width of 32,26 meters, a tonnage of 63.000 tons and a cruise speed of 19 knots.

Large the New York, that it fly Italian flag, can transport 6,700 ceu (Car Equivalent Unit) or in alternative 4,000 linear meters of goods rotabile and 2,500 ceu. The ship is provided with four bridges furniture that returns it extremely flexible and able a ship to embark any type of rotabile cargo (car, vans, truck, tractors, bus, excavators, etc) until 5,2 meters of height. Moreover the ship is equipped of two ramps of access, lateral and one of stern, this last able to load goods with a weight until 150 tons.

Large the New York is equipped of a main engine Man Diesel & Turbo to electronic control that affords to respect them the normative new for the reduction of the nitrogen oxide emissions (NOx), while its scrubber pulls down the sulfur oxide emissions (SOx). Moreover a system of treatment of ballast waters is provided with that will allow to respect them the future norms in matter.

"Large the New York - the managing director of the partenopeo group has explained, Emanuele Grimaldi - during the last few years re-enters in the program of potenziamento of the connections between the Mediterranean and the America North started from our group with the employment of always modern, highly flexible ships and with low environmental impact".

3rd November the new ship has left the port of Nanjing with Antwerp direction where weekly magazine operated from the group between the Mediterranean and the America North will be employed on the service ro-ro. The ports served from the connection are Gemlik (Turkey), Gioia Tauro, Civitavecchia, Savona, Halifax Regional Municipality, New York, Baltimora, Veracruz (Mexico) and Antwerp. Meantime on 31 October the Great Baltimora, binoculars of Large the New York and also it engaged in the connection weekly magazine America Mediterranean-North, has begun its maiden voyage in the American port of Baltimora where a ceremony in the course of which is celebrated John Wobensmith, secretary of state of the State of Maryland, has delivered to Costantino Baldissara, Commercial, Logistics & Operations director of the Grimaldi group, a plate of encomium on behalf of the governor of the State of Maryland as acknowledgment of beyond the 50 years of fruitful relations between the port of Baltimora and Neapolitan shipowning group. Next delivery for the Grimaldi group will be the Large binoculars the Halifax Regional Municipality, previewed for January 2018.