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Irish Continental Group has ordered the construction of a cruise ferry to German ship yard FSG
The store clerk has a value of 165,2 million euros
January 2, 2018
The company of Irish navigation Irish Continental Group (ICG) has ordered to the German ship yard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) the construction of a cruise ferry that it will be employed on the marine route Dublino-Holyhead. .
The new ship, that it will be taken in delivery within the half of 2020, will have an ability to 1.800 people between passengers and crew and to 5.610 linear meters of motor vehicles, ability to rotabili that will allow to transport until 330 trucks and 1,500 cars every travel and that - has emphasized ICG - it will be elevated to the world relatively to the segment of the cruise ferry. The new unit, of 67.300 ton of tonnage, will have a cruise speed of 22,8 knots.
The new one cruise ferry, that she from the ICG to the FSG with a store clerk of the value of 144 million euros will follow the delivery of half 2018 of cruise ferry the ordered Yeats also, will be used in order to replace currently employed the Ulysses ferry on the Dublino-Holyhead route that in its turn will replace the Epsilon ferry that is taken rental by the ICG.
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