WWL Welcomes High-Efficiency Neo-Panamax to Fleet

by Ship & Bunker News Team
Tuesday July 19, 2016

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) Tuesday announced that MV Themis, a High Efficiency RoRo (HERO) class vessel, which features an efficiency boosting hull shape, rudder, and bow to reduce drag and wave resistance, has now joined the company's fleet.

Themis is noted to be fitted with an exhaust gas scrubber, which removes 70 percent of particulate matter in order to comply with emission control area (ECA) requirements.

The vessel is said to be the fourth neo-panamax class vessel to join the WWL fleet, following the addition of Theben, Thalatta, and Thermopylae.

Themis is almost 200 metres long, 36.5 metres wide, with five liftable car decks, and a capacity to carry as much as 8,000 car equivalent units.

"With the launch of Themis, WWL is now half way into the newbuilding order totalling eight new RoRo vessels commencing service between 2015 and 2017," said WWL.

"With the new draft, she can call ports with shallower depths, increasing her geographical scope of service," added the company, noting that Themis' first port of call was Yokohama, and is currently sailing Bremerhaven.

In May, Ship & Bunker reported that WWL had launched a new policy that requires all of its vessels to utilise bunkers with a less than 0.1 percent sulfur content, or an equivalent method of compliance, while at berth in any port around the world.

Ship & Bunker News Team
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