BERMUDA ISLANDER

摘要

The first in a series of newly designed Cono-feeder 200 container feeder vessels, the 205 TEU 'Bermuda Islander', was launched at Tille Shipyards, Kootstertille, on 26th August, marking for this shipyard a return to full shipbuilding activities. For the past five years this yard, part of Central Industry Group (CIG), Grortingen, had been used mainly as a section-only building yard. Owned by C. V. Heereborg Groningen the 'Bermuda Islander' will be managed and operated by Armawa Shipping & Trading, Groningen, and will enter a long term charter of three years, option three periods of one year each, with Ber- muda International Shipping Ltd. (BISL). She will operate on the New Jersey to Hamilton (Bermuda) feeder service, the service being operated by BISL since 1985. Although the new-building will be operating on the USA eastern sea coast, the vessel will remain under Dutch flag and will be crewed, both officers and ratings, by Dutch nationals.