Shulou(Shulou.com)12/24 Report--

CTOnews.com news on December 4, @ small Di KuaiBao Weibo announced today that BYD car ro / ro carrier EXPLORER 1 has successfully completed its first seven-day trial in Yantai, Shandong Province.

In November this year, Guangzhou Shipping International announced that BYD 7000 dual fuel vehicle Carrier (PCTC) project No. 1, undertaken by Guangzhou Shipbuilding International, a subsidiary of China Shipbuilding Group, would start construction in Nansha, Guangzhou.

BYD 7000 dual-fuel PCTC ship is a PCTC series ship under construction by Guangzhou Shipping International. The ship has a total length of 199.9 meters, a width of 38 meters, a design draft of 9 meters, a design speed of 18.5 knots (CTOnews.com Note: about 34.262km/h), a natural gas (LNG) / fuel dual-fuel propulsion system, and is equipped with battery system and shaft generator for the first time. At the same time, the use of energy-saving devices, drag reduction and antifouling paint and other energy-saving measures, is a green, intelligent, environmentally friendly and efficient automobile transport ship.

▲ effect diagram the project plans to build a total of two ships, with BYD as the final owner, which will break the "choke neck" situation of European shipping companies for a long time.

According to CTOnews.com 's previous report, in the second half of last year, several sources reported that BYD affiliated companies would order eight ro-ro ships with a capacity of 7700 cars at a shipyard in Yantai, Shandong Province, at a total cost of nearly 5 billion yuan. Six of them are basically confirmed to be built, and the other two are option orders.

Adding the two together, the two shipyards in Yantai and Guangzhou are expected to contribute up to 10 ro-ro ships to BYD's sea fleet.

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