Ship&Offshore | Issue 01/2023
Grimaldi orders more car carriers
PCTCS | Naples-headquartered Grimaldi Group has ordered five, option two, pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company Limited and China Shipbuilding Trading Company Limited, both subsidiaries of China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited. The total investment could total more than USD 630 million and comes just about two months after the company ordered five more PCTCs. The 200m-long vessels will have a capacity of 9,000 car equivalent units (CEU) and their design has evolved from the 6,700-CEU PCTCs – Grande Balitmora , Grande New York , and Grande Halifax , commissioned between 2016 and 2018....