COSCO Shipyard floats out Vroon's first livestock carrier
Cosco Shipyard in Guangdong, China, has held recently a launching ceremony for Galloway Express, first livestock carrier being built for Vroon B.V, the Dutch company news release said.
The launching took place in two stages. On 6 April the vessel was pulled from the slipway to the floating dock, a process that took six hours. The second stage, on 9 April, was to lower the ship into the water by filling the floating dock.
Galloway Express is the first of four livestock carriers being built for Vroon at the Shipyard. We look forward to her delivery this summer.
Breskens, the Netherlands headquartered Vroon B.V. is a diversified international shipping company . Today the company operates worldwide and has a fleet of around 160 vessels transporting livestock, dry cargo, containers, automobiles, and clean and dirty oil products, as well as a large fleet of offshore-support vessels. The company employes about 110 people.
