Keel laying for new building 784

With a traditional keel-laying ceremony at Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG), the first module of the newbuilding number 784, weighing more than 154 tonnes, was lowered onto the pier by crane. In keeping with maritime custom, a coin was placed on top of the bollard as a lucky charm for the RoRo ferry to be built. The nails were hammered into the keel laying plate by Philipp Maracke (Managing Director of FSG Nobiskrug Holding), Chas Kelly (CEO SeaRoad), Tony Johnson (Technical Marine Manager SeaRoad), and Dustin Lind, the youngest trainee at FSG. The ferry will be fuelled by LNG. SeaRoad has great confidence in FSG and its technological capabilities with this new order for a RoRo ferry.

The commissioned RoRo ferry has a length of 210 metres and a width of 29.30 metres. The ship will have 3,722 track metres available for freight transport, and 101 cars can also be taken on board (= 4,227 track metres in total). A special requirement: the ship will be especially suitable for transporting heavy cargo with a unit weight of up to 100 tonnes. The order is worth more than 100 million euros and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the financing partner for the project.

The new RoRo ferry will travel on the Bass Strait between Devonport on Tasmania and Melbourne on the Australian mainland in the state of Victoria.

Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft is a company of Lars Windhorst's Tennor Group.