Danish marine design company Knud E Hansen will certainly be supplying the style for 2 brand-new roll-on/roll-off vessels for European delivery and also logistics firm DFDS.

The 2 ships will certainly be constructed by Jinling Shipyard in China for distribution at the end of 2018 and also start of 2019.

The vessels are anticipated to be amongst the biggest and also most reliable vessels of their kind throughout the globe.

Knud E Hansen states it has actually functioned very closely with DFDS and also Jinling Shipyard for the previous 4 months to establish the style. The firm states the vessels will certainly likewise “raise the bar” of what is thought about eco-friendly.

“The ships represent a new generation of environmentally friendly ro-ro ships as they comply with the latest environmental rules of the new IMO-standard EEDI (Energy Efficency Design Index),” DFDS claimed in a declaration revealing the newbuilds. “Also included are scrubbers for the removal of sulphur, ballast water treatment systems and a number of energy efficiency initiatives.”

The brand-new ships will certainly each bring 6,700 lane meters of products, comparable to about 450 trailers, and also procedure 235 meters long with a light beam of 33 meters. The ships will certainly run at solution rate of 21 knots.

Both newbuildings are intended to be released in DFDS’ path network on the North Sea.

DFDS has choices for 4 added ships.

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