The Chinese Jinling shipyard has handed over the ro-ro to the Neapolitan company, the fifth in a series of 12 hybrid vessels of the Grimaldi Green 5th Generation (GG5G) class.
The parties have started to trial the use of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as fuel for trucks carrying Unilever's shipments from the Port of Amsterdam-located terminal of TMA Logistics.
The new link, suitable for semi-trailers (P400, frigo) and containers (incl. with dangerous goods), will connect Duisburg and Poznań from the beginning of June.
The ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, designed and manufactured by Liebherr Container Cranes in Ireland, have been assembled in the Spanish Cádiz for onward shipping to Morocco.
