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NYK orders four ships PCTC in sight of an increase of the question of car transport
They will be constructed by the Japanese yards Imabari Shipbuilding Co. and Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co.
October 15, 2012
The shipowning group Japanese Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has announced today the emission of orders for the construction of four Pure new Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC), of which two they will be realized by the ship yard of Marugame of the Imabari Shipbuilding Co. with the assistance of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and two from the Onishi Shipyard ship yard of Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co. The four ships will be taken in delivery between 2014 and 2015.
Specifying that the investment takes part of own in the mid term business plan "Blackberries Than Shipping 2013" and that the ships are the first PCTC that the company has decided to construct after the failure of Lehman Brothers in 2008, NYK has explained that it previews a rise of the question of PCTC employment and that the four new ships will be unit post-Panamax in a position to journeying once in the Panamanian channel that will be completed its increase in the autumn of 2014.
Four new PCTC will be long than 200 meters, less wide 35-36 meters and will have an ability to about 7.000 motor vehicles. The ships - it has found NYK - will be 2-3 wider meters regarding the current PCTC in service and will be equipped of the advance systems than saving of the fuel burnup, that they will improve the fuel approximately performance of 30%.
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