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the Harbour Authority of Tallinn orders four new ferries
Two will be constructed by the Polish yard Remontowa Shipbuilding and two from that Turk Sefine Shipyard
November 5, 2014
The Harbour Authority of Tallinn has ordered to the Polish ship yard Remontowa Shipbuilding and the Turkish ship yard Sefine Shipyard the construction of four ferries that will be delivered in 2016 and will be employed in connections between the port of Tallinn and the main Estonian islands.
The new ships ro-pax, of which two under construction near the yard of Danzica and two in the Turkish yard of Altinova, will be long 114 meters and will be able to transport 600 passengers and 150 cars or ten Tir. The four ferries will be planned by the Norwegian Lund, Mohr & Giæver-Enger Marin (LMG Marin) and will be equipped of diesel engines that in future, when stations of which liquified natural gas refueling are available in the operating area, could be replaced with fed systems of propulsion with GNL.
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