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Introduced to Civitavecchia renewed cruise ferry the Cruise Rome
Now the ship can accommodate 3,500 passengers, 271 cars and beyond 3.700 linear meters of commercial means
July 1, 2019
Today in the port of Civitavecchia the renewed Cruise Rome is introduced, the flagship of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi that has been recently subordinate to work of lengthening and restyling in the ship yard of the Fincantieri to Palermo. Thanks to the insertion of a troncone of 29 meters, now the cruise ferry he has a length of 254 meters and a tonnage of about 63.000 tons. Moreover to conclusion of the work the ship can accommodate 3,500 passengers and its bridge car of 3.000 square metres can contain 271 automobiles and beyond 3.700 linear meters of commercial means.
On the ship also solutions are adopted times to the reduction of the environmental impact and to the energy saving, between which four scrubber for purification of gases of drainage to the aim to pull down the sulfur emissions until 0.1% in mass, many pairs to five better than it is previewed by the normative new IMO that will take effect next 1° January, and to reduce the particulate matter of 80%. Moreover a system of great A batteries lithium of the ability to beyond five MWh for feeding the ship during the pauses in the ports is installed without the need to put in function the diesel generators.
The Cruise Rome is time returned operating on the line Civitavecchia - Porto Torres - Barcelona.
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