THE FUTURE RO/RO - REEFER CONCEPT

The Reefer - Ro/Ro vessel is designed as a standard Ro/Ro vessel where all inside decks can be converted to reefer holds and with 10 separate temperature zones all gas tight.  

The vessel also has a large intake of reefer or dry containers on the weather-deck and can carry cars, trucks and other rolling cargo.  

The vessel is specifically designed for the large banana and pineapple trades between Central America to Europe- and USA, West Africa to Europe and from the Philippines to Japan, South Korea, China and the Middle East.  

The ship has a very fast load and discharge operation, enabling slow steaming and/or more ports to be called. The design as a Reefer - Ro/Ro vessel is optimized to reduce the environmental impact from the ocean transportation as the design allows for full utilization in both directions. The vessel meets the newest environmental requirements for a ”green vessel” and LNG can be chosen as fuel for both propulsion and auxiliary engines running the refrigeration-plant onboard.  

As the size of the vessel and the fast port turn-time enable the vessel to call at the small yet designated load and discharge ports for bananas and pineapples, the vessel will directly contribute to a significant reduction in trucking and additional feedering of cargo, which today is needed when loading containerized and where the vessels are often only calling one max two load and discharge ports.

The design will result in a 35 to 50% Co2 reduction, possibly even higher when the need for trucking is significantly further reduced. The vessel with its loading, lashing and cargo handling system is patented by Reefer Intel AG.

The Reefer - Ro/Ro ship design has been developed in collaboration between Reefer Intel AG, Naval Architects Kn. E. Hansen A/S, Denmark and Stena Ro/Ro AB, Sweden.