The 181-metre vessel will be delivered in the third quarter of 2016 for a service in the Bass Strait to Tasmania, FSG said.

The 1,960-lane-metre ship will be the first in the world to carry containers, reefer units, trailers, cars and hazardous cargo as well as live animals – for example cattle.

It will be the yard's first ship to run on LNG, which will be taken on board the ship in mobile tanks.

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