(ANSA) - Genoa, October 19 - D'Amico International Shipping
is set to launch at its Hyundai Vinashin in Vietnam its first
three Long Range 1 (LR1) tankers, with a tonnage of 75,000
tonnes, with an overall investment of 131 million dollars. The
Italian engineers of the D'Amico group have collaborated with
the South Korean-Vietnamese shipyards to design a new generation
of eco-ships, 228m long and 36m wide, able to transport bigger
volumes, limiting consumption and CO2 emissions and maintaining
a draught similar to smaller ships to exploit the new routes
created by the widening of the Panama Canal. With Cielo Bianco,
Cielo Rosso and Cielo di Rotterdam, the ships built by D'Amico
in Vietnam in the last three years have risen to 13, in a plan
of new construction that includes a total of 22 ships and an
overall investment of 755 million dollars. "Vietnam is becoming
the shipbuilding hub of our fleet," said Paolo d'Amico,
president of d'Amico International Shipping.
D'Amico launches 3 75,000-tonne tankers
131-mn-euro investment, built in Vietnam shipyards