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The installation of scrubbers on eight GNV ferries has started
The work is expected to be completed by the first half of next year
August 12, 2020
The installation operation on the ship of the "DeepBlue LAB Full Hybrid" was built in Naples, at the construction sites Naval Mechanics (NMN), on the ship Majestic. The technical-commercial director of the naval engineering company Manuela Pagliari, explained that "they were about 120 workers a day are involved in the installation, for example over 150,000 hours of work and 18,000 linear meters of cables laid, almost 1,700 linear meters of fiberglass and steel piping, 400 square meters of insulation and about 270 tons of iron worked.'
Work on the other seven GNV units is completed expected by the first half of 2021 and will result in, Overall, an investment of around 90 million make GNV's fleet greener.
"Thanks to this installation - underlined GNV CEO Matteo Catani - we will be able to significantly lower sulfur oxides emissions them to a level five times lower than the law."
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