The new Pure Car & Truck Carrier (PCTC) Greater Manila commissioned by the Italian shipowning group Grimaldi to the shipyards SWS (Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company Limited) and CSTC (China Shipbuilding Trading Company Limited), both part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited (CSSC). For Grimaldi it is a matter of the seventh ammonia-ready unit, i.e. ready for use ammonia as a zero-emission alternative fuel carbon.

With a length of 200 meters, a width of 38 meters and a gross tonnage of about 77,500 tons, the Greater Manila is The Vehicle Truck has been designed for the efficient transport of vehicles (cars, SUVs, vans, etc.), both electric and fuel-powered as well as any other type of rolling stock. In in particular, it can load loads up to a total of 9,241 ceu, with four decks also suitable for the transport of other rolling cargo, including heavy loads of up to 250 tonnes, and with a maximum height of 6.5 meters.

The maiden voyage of Greater Manila will begin this week on the Asia-Europe service. The ship will depart from Taicang (China) with over 5,800 cars and 1,300 linear meters of other rolling stock (buses, trucks, excavators, wheel loaders) will reach the United Kingdom, Spain and Belgium and, through the transfer to the Grimaldi hub in Antwerp, to other destinations northern European and Mediterranean. From Europe, the ship will leave again to East Asia, with return to China at the end of the April.