Yesterday at the Chinese shipyard Guangzhou Shipyard International the GNV keel laying ceremony was held Virgo, the third of the four ro-pax units currently in operation construction on behalf of the Italian company GNV of the MSC group. GNV Virgo will be the first dual-fuel ship in the fleet of the company capable of being powered by natural gas liquefied and on the occasion of the ceremony the CEO of GNV, Matteo Catani, underlined that, as mentioned in the A few days ago, the president of Assarmatori, Stefano Messina, LNG "It represents the fuel on which our sector will have to aim in the coming years to concretely address, provided that the government supports its availability and dissemination, the energy transition and achieve the ambitious targets set by the European Union".

GNV Virgo will have a gross tonnage of about 52,300 tons, a length of 218 meters, a width of 29.60 meters and will be able to reach a maximum speed of 25 knots. It will have more than 420 cabins and will have a capacity of 1,785 passengers and 2,780 linear meters of rolling stock.