Expected 1,800 passengers, 180 crew members and more than 600 cars
Algiers – Guangzhou Shipyard International Company has signed a contract with Algeria’s state-owned shipping company Entmv to build one of the world’s largest ro-pax ferries. The project has been awarded to Danish company OSK-ShipTech. The project will carry 1,800 passengers, 180 crew members and more than 600 cars. The ferry will sail between Algeria and a number of cities in southern Europe . Gsi and OSK also collaborated on the design of the ferries that were commissioned by Moby and Gnv. “China has a strong focus on the ro-pax ferry market and we are very proud that Guangzhou Shipyard has once again chosen us to build the project. The Entmv ferry is a first in terms of design and operation,” explained Kristian Carøe Lind, technical manager at OSK. The new ro-pax ferry will be 200 metres long, 30 metres wide and have a draft of 6.7 metres.