{"id":62570,"date":"2019-03-08T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T11:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=62570"},"modified":"2019-03-30T19:58:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:58:46","slug":"mediterraneans-biggest-ro-ro-ship-launched-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mediterraneans-biggest-ro-ro-ship-launched-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean&#8217;s biggest Ro-Ro ship launched in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Danish shipping and logistics company DFDS launched the Mediterranean&#8217;s largest Ro-Ro ship in Turkey, according to U.N. Ro-Ro on Thursday.<\/h2>\n<p>The 237-meter-long Ephesus Seaways vessel with a 6,700 linear-meter capacity has been put into service following the naming ceremony in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>The ship will also be the largest vessel to serve DFDS customers on routes between Turkey and the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The Ephesus Seaways, which will begin its journey from Istanbul, is expected to arrive Trieste in northeast Italy on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the ceremony, Peder Gellert Pedersen, head of DFDS Shipping Division, said the new vessel &#8212; capable to carry 450 trucks &#8212; will offer &#8220;much wider service capacity&#8221; to international road transporters and logistics companies serving between Turkey and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Selcuk Boztepe, senior vice president of DFDS Mediterranean, for his part, said that Ephesus Seaways is first of the six Ro-Ro ships produced by China&#8217;s Jinling Shipyard on order.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2018, DFDS agreed to acquire 98.8 percent stake of Turkey\u2019s U.N. Ro-Ro for \u20ac950 million ($1.175 billion) on a debt-free basis.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danish shipping and logistics company DFDS launched the Mediterranean&#8217;s largest Ro-Ro ship in Turkey, according to U.N. Ro-Ro on Thursday. The 237-meter-long Ephesus Seaways vessel with a 6,700 linear-meter capacity has been put into service following the naming ceremony in Istanbul. The ship will also be the largest vessel to serve DFDS customers on routes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,895,117,174,194,1165],"tags":[78442,78441,77182],"class_list":["post-62570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-life","category-travel","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-life","tag-peder-gellert-pedersen","tag-ro-ro-ship","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}