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Corsica Ferries will commission the construction of two ships fed to GNL
They will have a cargo ability of 2.200 passengers and 700 vehicles
May 17, 2018
The company of Corsica Ferries navigation will order the construction of two new ships fed to which liquified natural gas. Pierre Mattei has announced, than last year with the leaders of Corsica Ferries he has acquired the control of the company(on 12 April 2017), celebrating the fifty-year period of the marine society, founded in 1968. Mattei has specified that it will be be a matter of two fast ships, of new generation, with a cargo ability of 2.200 passengers and 700 vehicles, in order to reduce the environmental impact and in order to answer to the future norms that will always limit more the emissions than polluting in the atmosphere.
Today Corsica Ferries counts a composed fleet of 13 ships from cruise ferries, day fderries, HSC Express and Mega Express. Pierre Mattei has assured a continuity with the past and has confirmed not to want to change broken, with this in mind to operate between consolidation, development and innovation. In fifty years of activity the company has transported almost 80 million passengers from all Europe and in the 2018 objective it is that to exceed the four for the first time million passengers transported in a year.
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