Atlantic Sail arrived in New York harbor yesterday morning and proceeded up the Hudson to pose for a picture or two off the World Trade Center before doing a 180 degree turn and heading through the Kill Van Kull to Newark Bay to conduct some import/export business.
Atlantic Sail is one of Atlantic Container Line’s (ACL) two Generation 4 (G4) combination container roll-on/roll off ships in their fleet, also known as Con-Ro vessels.
The unique design for the G4 vessels comes from Danish architecture firm Knud E. Hansen, a firm founded in 1937 that provides services such as advanced maritime engineering analysis of the structures and components in vessels ranging from arctic vessels to Ro-Ro (Roll-on/Roll/-off) container ships.
The ACL’s plan is to build sister ships of the Atlantic Sail and Atlantic Starand replace an earlier fleet of G3 vessels built in the mid 1980s.
Back then, the G3 vessels were built in French and Swedish ports, but the new generation of ships are being built in China.
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