World's largest car transporter arrives in Jordan


22-10-2016 03:12 PM

Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The world's largest car transporter, Hoegh Target docked at the Port of Aqaba Friday with 8,500 cars on board, 650 of which will be unloaded in the port.

Mansour Qouqazeh, a Ports Corporation official, said as he welcomed the giant Ro-Ro vessel that it was the first Post Panamax carrier registered to the Norwegian firm Hoegh Autoliners to arrive in Aqaba and the Middle East. That is a testimony of the port's ability and efficiency to welcome such ships, he said. The 14-deck auto transporter, boasts deck space the size of 10 football pitches. It is 200 metres in length and 36 metres wide and has a deck space of 71,400 square metres.

Officials said the vessel will left the port with 450 re-export cars.




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