21DEC2018 - NEWS - Crowley Maritime Corporation takes delivery of the second LNG powered ConRo vessel built by VT Halter Marine

Crowley Maritime Corporation has recently taken delivery of the second of two combination container/roll on-roll off (ConRo) ships powered by liquefied natural gas from shipbuilder VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ship, Taíno, will soon join sister ship El Coquí, which was delivered in July, operating on the Jones Act trade between Jacksonville, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The new Crowley ships, built specifically for the Puerto Rico trade, are 219.5 meters (720 feet), 26,500 deadweight tons (DWT), and can transport up to 2,400 twenty-foot-equivalent container units (TEUs) at a cruising speed of 22 knots.

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