Sea Containers orders six monohull high speed car ferries from Fincantieri for $200 million.GENOA, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 1995--Sea Containers Ltd., the Bermuda based marine container leasing, ferries and leisure company, today announced that its Italian subsidiary, Sea Containers Sea Containers may refer to:
This is the most prevalent form of waterborne vessel. It is the most straightforward and intuitive design. high speed car ferry car ferry n → Autofähre f newbuildings New Buildings (officially written as Newbuildings) is a large village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It lies about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the shores of the River Foyle and 5 km (3 mi) south of the city of Derry/Londonderry. from Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiana SpA. The ships will be built in Fincantieri's Riva Trigoso yard at Sestri Levante and its Muggiano yard at La Spezia La Spe·zia A city of northwest Italy east-southeast of Genoa on the Gulf of La Spezia, an arm of the Ligurian Sea. The city is a major seaport and year-round resort. Population: 90,800. Noun 1. , Italy. Two of the ships will be delivered in early 1997, two in early 1998 and two late in 1998. The ships will be of 100 meters length overall, will have a beam of 17.1 meters and a maximum loaded draft of 2.75 meters. The deadweight will be not less than 340 tons and the speed under full load will not be less than 37.8 knots at 90% maximum constant engine rating. They will carry at least 800 passengers seated and 175 cars. The purchase price is the Italian lira LIRA. The name of a foreign coin. In all computations at the custom house, the lira of Sardinia shall be estimated at eighteen cents and six mills. Act of March 22, 1846. The lira of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, and the lira of Tuscany, at sixteen cents. Act of March 22, 1846. equivalent of US$200 million. The engine and water jet package for each ship is based on 4 Ruston 20RK 270 diesel engines rated at 6875 kW each and 4 steering water jets type S 112 to be supplied by Kamewa. James B. Sherwood, president of Sea Containers, said that the Fincantieri order was the culmination of more than two years effort to design and build a new series of high speed vessels with double the car-carrying capacity of the first generation ships built for the company by the Incat Tasmania yard. The new series will be called "SuperSeaCats" to reflect the larger capacity compared with the first generation "SeaCats." Sherwood said the SuperSeaCat program had been delayed because of an attempt to build a catamaran catamaran (kăt'əmərăn`), watercraft made up of two connected hulls or a single hull with two parallel keels. Originally used by the natives of Polynesia, the catamaran design was adopted by Western boat builders in the 19th cent. design at the Austal yard in Western Australia. The trial speed of this vessel was well under contract requirements so the ship had to be rejected. He indicated that in the opinion of the company's in-house naval architects, Hart, Fenton & Co., the monohull will outperform a catamaran above a certain size and is much less costly to build. He also said it had proven very difficult to work with Australian yards due in part to their long distance from home leading to misunderstandings and non-observance of contract requirements. Sherwood said that Fincantieri's technical team and resources were so great that the sort of problems encountered with the Australian yards should be avoided. Sherwood said that present plans were to employ the six newbuildings in the Irish Sea, English Channel and Scandinavia. He indicated that the five first generation SeaCats would likely be employed in Argentina, Venezuela, the Irish Sea and Italy. The smaller ships are being used to establish routes which will be taken over by the larger ones later on. None of the newbuildings will carry freight or buses. He indicated that in Sea Containers' opinion freight would move in dedicated ro-ro vessels because the hauliers will not pay a premium for high speed transport. The SuperSeaCat's superstructure design is by Sergio Pininfarina and the interiors will be by Vittorio Garroni Carbonara car·bo·na·ra n. A sauce for pasta containing eggs, minced bacon or ham, grated cheese, and seasonings. [Italian (alla) carbonara, (from) a charcoal grill, from carbone, . The ships will not have bow doors and will have a U-turn system on the car decks to speed disembarkation. Vehicle parking will be on two decks. The passengers will be accommodated on two levels, with a "club class" on the upper deck and "standard class" on the lower deck. There will be a panorama window bar and cafeteria at the stern of the vessel and a large duty-free shop. There will be external sheltered deck seating and an internal bridge observation area. Safety and emergency features include four "dry shod shod v. Past tense and a past participle of shoe. shod Verb a past of shoe Adj. 1. " slide chute escape systems directly into life rafts. CONTACT: Sea Containers America Inc., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Jennifer Hawkins, 212/302-5066 or William W. Galvin, 212/838-5454 |
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