The shipping company GNV of the MSC group has announced today an order for the construction of four more new ships Ro-Pax, an order that will be entrusted to Chinese shipyards Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) of Guangzhou which is already building four ships of the same type for the company. This new order, added to that of the previous order, will guarantee GNV to increase its fleet by eight new units between 2025 and 2030.

Work is scheduled to start in 2026 and delivery of the first of the four additional ships will take place within the early 2028; followed by the others on a six-monthly basis. The new units, which will have a gross tonnage of about 71,300 tons, a length of 237 meters and a width of 33 meters, They will be able to accommodate up to 2,500 people including passengers and crew and will be equipped with 527 cabins and 3,500 linear meters of garage. For tonnage will be the largest ships of the company and the most capacious in the Mediterranean.

As for GNV Virgo and GNV Aurora, currently in construction at the GSI shipyard and coming by the end of 2025, 11 months ahead of schedule, the new units they will all be powered by LNG and equipped with environmental technologies that will ensure a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 of more than 50% per transportable unit compared to those of previous generation.

"With this important investment - he underlined Pierfrancesco Vago, Executive Chairman of GNV - let's accelerate our fleet renewal plan, focusing on to support the company's decisive and ambitious growth with time horizon to 2030. In recent years, thanks also to the new ships, we want to achieve challenging goals and strengthen our role on the market to be recognized as a leader in the ferries for the value created for the benefit of passengers and customers. The order of four additional units demonstrates, once again, a time, that for GNV environmental sustainability and safety are key elements and indispensable factors of doing business, as well as a fundamental competitive lever to achieve the business goals. Among the most important is the to ensure the widest possible support for the competitiveness of the territories in which we operate: shipping in fact, it represents an essential infrastructure to ensure reliable connections between territories and stimulate development of the communities operating there'.