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areas and will be 5000 km long.
At Genoa, everything will be loaded
onto a large cargo ship, the APL
Southampton, in 16 containers.
This modern vessel, in service
since 2012, can easily be defined
as a ‘monster of the sea’, having
a capacity of no less than
131,000 deadweight tons, equal
to 10,798 TUE-type containers!
The load will contain no tyres,
which will be delivered to the
Buriram’s Chang International
Circuit from one of the
Michelin racing services in Asia.
The APL Southampton will stop in
Singapore, where the cargo will be
transferred on board the APL Qingdao;
this vessel is scheduled to arrive
at the Thai harbour of Laem Chabang
on 18 August. From there,
the containers will be loaded on
trucks to cover the short distance
(420 km) on the crowded Thai
motorways up to Buriram. After the
Thai event, everything will be ready
to be dispatched, again by ship, to
Singapore.
And the journey will go on…
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