{"id":1882,"date":"1998-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-08-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/1998\/09\/01\/superfast-boost-for-hdw\/"},"modified":"1998-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1998-08-31T23:00:00","slug":"superfast-boost-for-hdw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/general-news\/superfast-boost-for-hdw\/","title":{"rendered":"SuperFast boost for HDW&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further expansion plans have been announced by Greece`s Attica Enterprises, which operates a passenger\/vehicle ferry service between Greece and Italy. The company is set to double its fleet with a newbuilding order for a quartet of SuperFast roro passenger ferries at Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft in Germany. The newbuildings are valued at a total of $450 million and will be delivered during 2000 and 2001. The investment is financed by Attica`s own funds and by bank loans by the German bank Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is a significant coup for the German yard which recently marked its return to passenger ship construction with the cruise ship Deutschland. Attica`s commitment to new tonnage is further reflected by the fact that the contract includes an option for a further two vessels. Completion dates have not yet been specified for the options.<\/p>\n<p>The latest quartet ordered will be able to accommodate 1,500 passengers and approximately 1,000 vehicles.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further expansion plans have been announced by Greece`s Attica Enterprises, which operates a passenger\/vehicle ferry service between Greece and Italy. The company is set to double its fleet with a newbuilding order for a quartet of SuperFast roro passenger ferries at Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft in Germany. The newbuildings are valued at a total of $450 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}