Sweden’s oldest passenger shipping company Rederi AB Gotland Group named its new ro-ro passenger vessel M/S Visborg on December 9 in Guangzhou City, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province.
The LNG-powered ferry is being built by Guangzhou Shipyard International Company, part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), and it is 200 meters long and has the capacity to accommodate 1,730 passengers.
The vessel will be added into the fleet in February 2019, after having its final details done.
Moreover, Visborg is the first of two sister ferries being built for the Swedish ferry company. Both vessels will be powered by Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines running on LNG.
Concluding, the ferry will be operated by Destination Gotland, which belongs to Rederi AB Gotland; and will voyage between Wisky island and Oskarshamn Port.
