A group of 28 students from the Swedish sail training ship TS Älva visited the PLOCAN shore facilities accompanied by a teacher.

Students on this vessel spend approximately two months aboard the TS Älva during their three-year training. This way, these young people combine an extensive study programme with visits to sites in the different ports they sail to complete their training.

The TS Älva was built in 1939 at the Lödöse shipyards, close to Gothenberg, on the west coast of Sweden. Although it was originally used to carry cargo in the Baltic Sea, half a century later, it is used for training voyages. It is a beautiful ship with three masts that carry eight sails, giving a total sail area of six hundred square metres.