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Bulgaria's Ruse Shipyard Builds Ship in Record Time

1 min read Source: Novinite

From our news archive: this article was published in August 2011. Figures and rules may have changed since.

The shipyard in Bulgarian Danube city of Ruse built a sea-faring ship for 3.5 months instead of the usual 12-month period.

Monday the newly built 8,000 tonne deadweight, 128.5 m freight ship will be sail off to Varna for testing.

The ship, called "Frisian Ocean", has been commissioned by Dutch company Boomsma Shipping BV.

Originally published by Novinite.