The Puerto de Santander hosted the Thermopylae scale of the Wilhemsen Logistics company, the first ship of the Post-Panamax Hero series (High Efficient Roro) that is building this naviera. It was the inaugural trip of this ship that left scarce weeks of the Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea.
Coinciding with this first trip of thermopylae, those responsible for WWL in Spain made a presentation to customers, suppliers, consignees, responsible for the port and media in which Cristina López, director of the Port Authority of Santander were present; Dora Homs, car director and rolling material and Eukeni Salutregui, project loading director, both of WWL in Spain, and Fernando Basterrechea, director of children of Basterrechea, port agents in Santander de Wwl. Next to them were responsible for Bergé, WWL docker company in Santander, and different representatives of the port of Santander, among other guests.
The thermopylae belongs to a new generation of ships that comply with European law in environmental matters since it is equipped with an exhaust gas cleaning system that reduces emissions very remarkably and another for the treatment and purification of load water . It also includes a series of solutions that make them energetically efficient, with a maximum speed consumption (19.5 knots/hour) of 65 tons per day and in economic speed (14.5 knots/hour) of 28 tons.
With measures of 36.5 meters wide and 200 meters long, counts 66,000 square meters with 10 roofs, of which 5 are dedicated to load, and can host up to 8,000 cars. The covers are lifted, which makes it possible to transport several sizes. In addition, its design allows you to reach the ports with minor depths, and the greatest capacity and width of its ramp facilitates the load speed, which reduces the time in port.
As is traditional when a ship arrives for the first time to Santander, the ship's captain, Jaideer Gode, received from the director of Puerto La Metopa commemorative this first scale. After sailing from Santander, thermopylae towards Oceania.