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To Castellammare Fincantieri multirole LHD has begun the construction of a amphibious unit
It will be delivered in 2022
February 20, 2018
Today in the ship yard of Castellammare di Stabia of the Fincantieri group multirole (LHD that is Landing Helicopter is begun the construction of a amphibious unit Dock) that and it re-enters in the naval program for the protection of the marine ability to the Defense that is decided by the government and the parliament Italian and started in May 2015.
The unit will have a length of about 215 meters, the maximum speed of 25 knots, and will be equipped of an arranged system of propulsion diesel/electrical worker and gas turbines (CODLOG). Relatively to its military employment, the LHD will have its main mission in the transport of staff, vehicles and cargos of varied nature and in the transfer to earth of the same ones in harbour areas through the systems of edge and in zones not equipped, while the profile of civil employment of the unit previews activity of sanitary support and hospital worker.
The LHD will be certifyd by RINA Services in agreement with the international conventions for the prevention of the pollution is for the more traditional aspects as those treatys from marpol convention, is for those not still cogenti, as the convention of Hong Kong dedicated to the demolition of the ships.
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