The Board of Directors of Attica Group S.A. is pleased to announce the signing of shipbuilding contracts with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), Korea for the building of two monohull-type, fast car-passenger ferries at a price of Euro 68.50mln a piece. The delivery of the first vessel will take place in spring 2011 and of the second vessel in the first quarter of 2012. Both ships are designed to operate in the Greek domestic waters. The ships will have overall length 145.5 meters and speed of 25.5 knots and the capacity to carry 2,400 passengers and 450 private vehicles or 50 freight units and 150 private vehicles.
Speaking of Attica's new investment, Mr. Petros Vettas, CEO of Attica said: "We are pleased to sign the shipbuilding contracts for the construction of two new vessels for our Group with the world-class shipyard DSME. The same shipyard has built our most successful vessels, Blue Star Paros, Blue Star Naxos and Blue Star Ithaki a few years ago. Our Group's scope to provide first class sea transportation services in domestic and international waters with modern, new and fast ships will be further enhanced with the addition of these two units".
Notes to Editors
1. Attica Group, a subsidiary of Marfin Investment Group, is the parent company of the shipowning companies of the Superfast and the Blue Star ferries. Its fleet of 13 ferries operates in the Greece-Italy sea routes, in the Cycladic and the Dodekanese islands and since March 2009 in the Piraeus-Herakleion, Crete route with the ultramodern Superfast XII.
2. Attica Group expects the delivery of newbuilding Superfast II in September 2009 to be deployed in the Patras-Igoumenitsa-Bari route.