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Vard will realize portacontainer the independent electrical worker and of the Yara-Kongsberg project
It will be delivered in the first trimester of 2020
August 16, 2018
The shipbuilding society Vard of the Fincantieri group has made sure the contract of the value of about 250 million crowns Norwegian (26 million euros) of the Yara International Norwegian in order to construct to an independent container vessel and with propulsion electrical worker, project that the Norwegian company is getting ahead with the Kongsberg compatriot(on 15 May 2017).
The ship, that it will be christened with the name of Yara Birkland, will be constructed in the Norwegian yard Vard Brevik, while the hull will be realized by the Rumanian yard Vard Braila, and will be completed in the first trimester of 2020. Initially the portacontenitori will navigate with crew in order then to be operated within 2022 in completely independent way in order to transport cargos from the system of production of ammonia of the Yara to Porsgrunn to the Norwegian ports of Brevik and Larvik. The new ship will be long 80 meters, wide 15 meters and will have a cargo ability pairs to 120 teu.
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