On 3rd of December, Faculty of Engineering - University of Rijeka (RITEH) organized in Rijeka (at RITEH premises) the second Project Bi-Annual Meeting of METRO project. The meeting was attended by all Partners, namely by University of Trieste - UNITS, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering - RITEH, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies - PFRI, Wartsila Italia - WIT, Tehnomont Shipyard Pula - TSP, Trieste Port Authority - TPA and Istrian Development Agency – IDA. The second meeting was more focused on management aspects of the first and next project periods and all partners discussed about obligations on project activities further steps.  

Basic data of hybrid vessels 

During dedicated working sessions, project partners (TSP, RITEH, WIT, UNITS) together with external expert, company FlowShip discussed about ships basic data in order to define a set of starting inputs to allow proceeding with the ship design.

Partners agreed in principle to move forward by framing main ship basic data, in order to allow Tehnomont Shipyard Pula to initiate the basic design activities of the two vessels, meant for the two agreed routes: Double-end ferry (Brestova-Porozina) and RoPax (Ancona-Split).

Next project meeting will be held in Trieste in June 2020.