Cars from Italy

Most arrivals at Autoport are ships with cars loaded at west European ports. Today's arrival however was from Gioia Tauro, Italy, and presumably carried Italian made cars and trucks.

Grande Sierra Leone is a combination carrier CONRO - container and RoRo - but was carrying only RoRo on this trip. Ships of Grimaldi Lines are infrequent callers here, but Grimaldi owns Atlantic Container Lines, which calls here as often as twice weekly.

Built in 2011 by Hyundai Mipo in Ulsan, it is a 47,659 gt, 25,665 dwt ship with a capacity of 3711 CEU, and 1276 TEU. It also carries two 40 tonne SWL cranes.  It is one of five ships in the Grande Marocco class.

In addition to cargo in the enclosed car decks the ship was also carrying a number of cargo vans on the open deck.

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