The Genoa based shipping company Ignazio Messina & C. finalized the purchase of a new 6,300 TEU capacity container vessel then taking delivery of it in the Singapore bay.

This vessel, renamed Jolly Bianco, is a sister vessel of the Jolly Verde that has been acquired last April, and therefore is the second largest ship of the Genoese company: 283 meters long and 40 meters wide, is manned by a crew of 23 members, 17 of whom are Italian, including Captain Salvatore Cammareri from La Spezia. Built in 2007, the Jolly Bianco boasts a total 6,300 TEU containers capacity; once repositioned in the Mediterranean in the next days, this vessel will be deployed on the route to the Red Sea, Arabian Gulf, India, and Pakistan thus satisfying growing transport demand aimed at supporting exports to the Italian market.