Singapore Technologies Marine (ST Marine) has laid the keel for Singapore’s first Roll-on/Roll-off passenger ferry (ropax) at its main yard in Benoi.
The contract, worth approximately S$168 million (US$117.4 million) to design and build the Ropax for the French trading and shipping company, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA), was announced in July last year. The 4,900DWT ropax, measuring 161-metres-long and 25.6-metres-wide was originally targeted to carry 930 passengers to operate in the English Channel for day and night crossing, but it will now be built to carry 1,300 passengers after LDA’s additional requirement and injection of S$5 million (US$3.49 million). Equipped with passenger lounges and cabins, restaurants and bars, and a summer deck, the passenger vessel has also been designed to carry both trailers and cars, with a Roll-on/Roll-off (ro-ro) lane capacity of about 1,500 metres and car lane capacity of about 2,290 metres. The ropax is expected to be delivered in the first half of 2010 to increase LDA’s fleet of Ropax ferry to five, all trading in the English Channel.
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