SHARE
FINCANTIERI: KEEL LAYING FOR FAST FERRY FOR GOTLAND
28 feb 2005
28 feb 2005
Today at Riva Trigoso shipyard, which reports to Fincantieri’s Naval Vessel Business Unit, there was the laying of the keel of the fast ferry ordered last August by the Swedish owner Rederi A.B. Gotland. Delivery is scheduled for early 2006.
Present at the ceremony were, for the ship owner, Jan-Eric Nilsson, Company Chairman, and the Honorary Chairman, Eric D. Nilsson, and the shipyard’s director, Pier Amato Costa.
The vessel, which was built and designed in accordance with IMO code HSC 2000 and is classed by Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, will be 122 metres long, 16.65 metres wide and will be equipped with two bow thrusters, four diesel engines of 9,000 kW each and four steering- reversing water jets. She will be able to reach a maximum speed of approximately 40 knots and will have an operating speed of 36 knots. Her maximum deadweight will be approximately 600 tonnes, with a capacity for 800 passengers in addition to over 160 cars and 8 buses.
The ship, which is scheduled to operate in the Baltic Sea, has been designed, and is to be built, in accordance with the stringent requirements laid down by the Swedish Maritime Authority with regard to environmental impact. She will be equipped with catalytic converters to reduce the level of pollutants emitted both at sea and when in port and with passive control systems for acoustic pollution which will enable noise levels to be substantially contained at all times.
The design and construction of the vessel will draw on dual technologies, some from the naval field, as in the series of high performance ferries built in the shipyards of Fincantieri’s Naval Vessel Business Unit in the second half of the 1990s. These ferries were developed from the experience of the “Destriero”, which, in 1992 won the “Blue Ribbon”, setting the record for the Atlantic crossing, without refuelling at an average speed of over 53 knots, with peak speeds of almost 70 knots.
Present at the ceremony were, for the ship owner, Jan-Eric Nilsson, Company Chairman, and the Honorary Chairman, Eric D. Nilsson, and the shipyard’s director, Pier Amato Costa.
The vessel, which was built and designed in accordance with IMO code HSC 2000 and is classed by Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, will be 122 metres long, 16.65 metres wide and will be equipped with two bow thrusters, four diesel engines of 9,000 kW each and four steering- reversing water jets. She will be able to reach a maximum speed of approximately 40 knots and will have an operating speed of 36 knots. Her maximum deadweight will be approximately 600 tonnes, with a capacity for 800 passengers in addition to over 160 cars and 8 buses.
The ship, which is scheduled to operate in the Baltic Sea, has been designed, and is to be built, in accordance with the stringent requirements laid down by the Swedish Maritime Authority with regard to environmental impact. She will be equipped with catalytic converters to reduce the level of pollutants emitted both at sea and when in port and with passive control systems for acoustic pollution which will enable noise levels to be substantially contained at all times.
The design and construction of the vessel will draw on dual technologies, some from the naval field, as in the series of high performance ferries built in the shipyards of Fincantieri’s Naval Vessel Business Unit in the second half of the 1990s. These ferries were developed from the experience of the “Destriero”, which, in 1992 won the “Blue Ribbon”, setting the record for the Atlantic crossing, without refuelling at an average speed of over 53 knots, with peak speeds of almost 70 knots.