On March 7, the first 866P green high-endROPAX vessel built byCMI Nanjing Jinling Shipyard (hereinafter Nanjing Jinling) for TT-Line of Germany was delivered 25 days ahead of schedule. Mr. Hu Xianfu, General Manager of China Merchants Industry, and Mr. Bernhard, Managing Director of TT-Line attended the online delivery ceremony and made speeches. Mr. Liu Changrong, Deputy Director of Standing Committee of Yizheng People's Congress attended the on-site ceremony. 

Hu Xianfu appreciated the recognition and trust of TT-Line and expressedhis appreciation for TT-Line's efforts to lead in the construction and application of green high-end ROPAX vessels. He pointed out thatCMI has been insisting on the development road of product differentiation and high-end. Relying on Nanjing Jinling, Weihai Jinling and Yangzhou Jinling, it strives to cultivate and build the brand of "China Merchants Jinling", and has formed strong technical ability and customer recognition in all kinds of ship construction. It is hoped that both sides will carry out deeper cooperation on the basis of this project.China Merchants industry looks forward to providing TT -line with high-quality ship products in the subsequent business development.

Mr. Bernhard highly praised Nanjing Jinling for delivering the high-quality products ahead of schedule. He pointed out that the staff of Nanjing Jinling showed their excellent technical ability, professional construction quality, tenacious working style and elaborate cooperation during construction and expressed his heartfelt thanks to all the staff involved in the project. He hoped that both sides would further strengthen communication and cooperation, consolidate the precious friendship accumulated over the past four years and work together in deeper and broader fields for win-win cooperation.

Mr. Wu Sichuan, Vice General Manager of CMI and Mr. Jiang Fuhai, Assistant General Manager ofCMI attended theonline ceremony. Mr. Andreas, representative of shipowner and Mr. Ding Jianliang, Executive Vice General Manager of Nanjing Jinling signed the delivery document.Mr.Mei Yun, Deputy director of the Administrative Committee of Yizheng Economic Development Zone, Ms. Yan Xiaolin,General Manager of North China of DNV Classification Society, Mr. Andreas, representative of shipowner and Mr. Qin Lie, Deputy Secretary of the party committee delivered speeches at the ceremony. Relevant PIC of Yizheng government, members of the shipowner company and classification society, and persons involved in the project of Nanjing Jinling attended the ceremony.

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The core product "Ro-Ro Vessels", as the single champion products of the 6th batch of Manufacturing Industry of MIIT, Nanjing Jinling has delivered a total of 50 ro-ro vessels of various types up to now. In recent years, to implement the manufacturing industry’s requirements of high-end, intelligent and green, Nanjing Jinling has been accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and giving play to the effect of leading enterprises in the industry chain, promoting the home-made supporting facilities and driving the industrial development and transformation and upgrading of a large number of domestic high-quality suppliers upstream and downstream of the industry chain. Based on the strategic positioning of "Deep Ploughing Ro-Ro", Nanjing Jinling is committed to being a "refined" brand of China Merchants Jinling specialized ships. As a shipyard with the earliest construction, the most delivery quantity and the most complete varieties of RO-RO ships in China, Nanjing Jinling had 20 Ro-Ro ship orders in hand by the end of 2021, accounting for 35.1% of the global market share in terms of total tonnage, ranking first in the world. It has formed a business situation of Cargo Ro-Ro ship,Car carrier and ROPAX ship constructed at the same time, which has further consolidated the industry status and gold content of Nanjing Jinling's RO-RO ship as the single champion.

The double-fuel ROPAX vessel delivered at this time is not only of beautiful appearance, high-end interior decoration and advanced technology,but also meets the highest comfort level of DNV classification society. The ship is229.4 meters long, 31 meters wide and 15.35 meters deep(to main deck) with designed speed about 22.4 knots. It has 12 decks and 245cabins,which can carry 800 passengers and 66 crew. The ship is a new generation of green and environment-friendly ship, equipped with four engines / double CPP propulsion and two 500m3 LNG tanks. The main and auxiliary engines and boilers are dual fuel models, which can be driven by LNG.Compared with ships driven by conventional fuel oil, the exhaust emission can be reduced by more than 50% under the same speed.With high automation, strong ability to resist cross wind andmeeting the requirements ofSRtP of ROPAX,both its vibration and noise control have reached a leading level in the world.Integrating passenger leisure, entertainment and vehicleand cargo transportation together, it is one of the typical representatives of a new generation of ROPAX vessel with safe, comfortable, green and environment-friendly, which can enable passengers to enjoy a comfortable experience while traveling safely.