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Star Floating 11-18-14

As the progress of two of the five, G4 Containership/RORO vessels are under construction, the recently named Atlantic Star was floated during a ship building inspection.

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ACL Announces Names of G4 Vessels

Construction is progressing on ACL’s new G4 vessels. When the construction of the G-4’s started in 2013, ACL’s parent company, the Grimaldi Group, decided that ACL’s employees would hold a contest to name the new vessels. Over 5,000 name proposals were … Continue reading

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G4 Construction Begins

The official steel cutting ceremony took place this week in Shanghai for Atlantic Container Line’s five G4 (Generation 4) RORO/Containerships, marking the begin of actual construction. Since signing a contract with ACL in July 2012 for the construction of these … Continue reading

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Hull Testing

It’s been a little over 2 months now since we announced our plans for the new G4’s. Our shipyard, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (HZS) has been very busy on the details of the   design work, working with ACL to specify component manufacturers and testing the hull form. Once the manufacturing process … Continue reading

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