TO BE BROKEN UP:
“GRANDE BRASILE” was beached in Aliaga / Turkey, 15 May 2025, as her final destination.
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VESSEL DETAILS:
TYPE: RoRo / Vehicle carrier / Container
IMO NO: 9198123
56 660 gt / 16 992 nt / 26 170 mdwt
Delivererd from Fincantieri Cant Nav. Palermo, Italy (Yard no 6055), in May 2000.
Historic details: (TO BE UPDATED)
- 27/02/1999 – Keel laid
- 19/02/2000 – Launched
- 31/05/2000 – Completed and delivered
- “GRANDE BRASILE” from delivery in 05/2000 until breaking in 2025
- From 05/2000 – Owned by Grimaldi Group Spa., Italy.
- From 05/2000 – Italian flag. (reg. Palermo)
- From 07/2003 – Owned by ACL Invest 2003 AB., Sweden.
- From 11/2009 – Gibraltar flag. (reg. Gibraltar)
- From 08/2020 – Malta flag. (reg. Valletta)
- From 11/2023 – Owned by ACL Vessel Two H1696A AB. – C/O: ACL Atlantic Container Line AB., Gothenburg / Sweden.
- 18/02/2025 – Fire damaged in English channel, on southbound voyage from Antwerp in Belgium to Le Havre in France.
- Later declared as “total loss” and sold to ship breakers in Turkey.
- 13/05/2025 – Arrived Aliaga anchorage / Turkey
- 15/05/2025 – Beached Aliaga / Turkey, as her final destination.
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ARCHIVE PHOTO:
“GRANDE BRASILE” / reg. Palermo, passing Cuxhaven / Germany, late evening 11 August 2001, on her way from Hamburg for sea.
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