SHANGHAI's Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding has started to build the first of the five Generation 4 roro-container vessels (conros) - the biggest ever built - for Atlantic Container Line (ACL).
ACL's order for the G4s was made last July, with the first to be delivered in January 2015, to replace its G3 conro fleet built in the mid-1980s.
ACL first devised conro ships on ideas spurred by its partner Wallenius. ACL started to operate its transatlantic services in 1967, first with the G1s and then the G2s, all replaced in 1984 by the larger G3s generation.
With a capacity of 3,800 TEU combined with enough space for 1,307 vehicles, the new G4s will move at 18 knots on 70 tonnes of bunker per day versus the G3s that go 17.5 knots burning 75 tonnes a day.
ACL also offers further Europe-US connections for containers through slots on Hapag-Lloyd's transatlantic services.
ACL was originally formed in 1965 as an integrated consortium set up by Holland America Line, Swedish America Line, Transatlantic Steamship and Wallenius, with Compagnie Generale Transatlantique and Cunard Line joining them in 1967, noted Alphaliner.
ACL offered then the first European transatlantic box service to challenge the Americans, who first introduced US-Europe container loops.
In 1989, ACL came under the ownership of Swedish group Bilspedition following the dissolution of its original consortium owners. It was listed on the Oslo stock exchange in 1994. Grimaldi-Napoli took control of ACL in 2001, after it acquired 81 per cent of the company's shares and the company was delisted in 2002.
SHIPBUILDING
27 September 2013 - 22:50
Biggest conro vessels in the world being built in Shanghai for ACL
SHANGHAI's Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding has started to build the first of the five Generation 4 roro-container vessels (conros) - the biggest ever built - for Atlantic Container Line (ACL).
SHIPBUILDING
27 September 2013 - 22:50
Biggest conro vessels in the world being built in Shanghai for ACL
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