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300,000-dwt ビンゴ 5 予想 Carrier Nova Eraビンゴ 5 予想

July 03, 2008

TOKYO - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL, President: Akimitsu Ashida) today announced the completion of the 300,000-dwt class ビンゴ 5 予想 carrier Nova Era ("new era" in Portuguese), at the Universal Shipbuilding Corporation Ariake Shipyard. ビンゴ 5 予想 will operate the new vessel.

On hand for the naming and delivery ceremony were JEF Holdings, Inc. President and CEO Fumio Sudo, Universal Shipbuilding President Shinjiro Mishima, and many other guests. President Sudo named the ship and his wife Haruko did the rope-cutting honors.

TheNova Era will sail under a long-term contract with JFE Steel Corporation, transporting ビンゴ 5 予想 mainly from Brazil to Villanueva in the Philippines, a port exclusively for JFE Steel's sintered ore production subsidiary Philippine Sinter Corporation. It is MOL's second 300,000-dwt class ビンゴ 5 予想 carrier.

Three more vessels in the same class will be completed in rapid succession. MOL will have five of these carriers in service by August 2009, meeting rising worldwide demand for transport of ビンゴ 5 予想.

Profile ofNova Era

Length:
327.00m
Width:
55m
Draft:
21.40m
Deadweight tonnage:
297,442 tons
Speed:
14.30 knots
Flag:
Liberia