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Jan 12
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An excellent year for Port of Tallinn

By 2024 Newsletter week 02

In 2023, 8 million passengers and 13 million tonnes of cargo passed through the harbours of Port of Tallinn. The annual number of passengers increased by 13%, or 900,000 passengers, recovering from the movement restrictions related to the pandemic.

The number of passengers between the Estonian mainland and the main islands, operated by Port of Tallinn’s subsidiary TS Laevad OÜ increased by 5%. In 2023, people travelled to the Estonian islands with the ferries more than ever, the number of trips, passengers and transported vehicles increased reaching an all-time record.

Jan 12
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A challenging year for Port of Antwerp-Bruges – Ireland traffic up

By 2024 Newsletter week 02

Geopolitical tensions and slowing global economic growth are driving down industrial production and trade flows. As a result, total throughput, which was 271 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, is down 5.5% from the previous year.

Despite this difficult context, thanks to the added value of the merger, the market share of the container segment increased compared to the other ports in the Hamburg – Le Havre range.

To ensure its strategic role as a world port in the future, sustainable growth remains a priority and a major investment programme is foreseen for the next 10 years.

Total roll-on/roll-off traffic is holding up relatively well with a slight decrease of 2.1%. Transport equipment troughput (in units) is up thanks to an increase in the throughput of new cars. In 2023, 3.56 million new cars were handled, an annualised growth of 9.0%. Throughput of unaccompanied cargo (excluding containers) carried on RoRo vessels is also down slightly (-1.5%). More than half of these flows are related to the UK and are down (-4.9%), while traffic related to Ireland is up sharply (+17.9%), while Scandinavia traffic is holding up.

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Jan 12
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Fred. Olsen Express and Baleària add second ship to the Canary Islands route

By 2024 Newsletter week 02

As of 13 January 2024, RoPax SICILIA will be added and will serve alongside RoPax MARIE CURIE.

The connection goes from two to three weekly trips from each port, both for cargo and passenger transport.

The service will have departures from Tenerife and Gran Canaria on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Meanwhile, from Huelva these routes will be made on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Jan 12
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Fjord1 and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration have signed a contract for the operation of the national road ferry connection E39 Lavik-Oppedal.

By 2024 Newsletter week 02

Fjord1 will operate the Lavik-Oppedal connection with four vessels from 2026 to 2034 (with the possibility of extension for up to three years).

Lavik – Oppedal is the ninth largest ferry connection in the country with 1.2 million car units in 2022.

The contract involves the development of fully automated solutions for all four ferries from 2027 onwards. The contract describes 23 different functions to be automated, and the sum of these functions means that the ferries will carry out route production by themselves. In addition, a control centre must be established on land, for monitoring and the possibility of remote control of the ferries.

Photo: Managing Director Fjord1, Dagfinn Neteland and director of ferries in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Dag Hole. Photo: Fjord1

Jan 12
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Ragusa Express ready to start sailing on the Malta – Sicily route

By 2024 Newsletter week 02

Ragusa Express is the newly built company that is on the verge of starting a high-speed ferry service linking Malta (La Valletta) with Sicily (Marina di Ragusa) in Southern Italy. The catamaran, renamed SAN GIORGIO, left Valletta this Wednesday to conduct some final berthing tests in Ragusa before entering full service in the near future.

The catamaran service to Marina di Ragusa is set to be launched before next summer after a Maltese group of investors, led by Paul Gauci of Pama and Pavi fame, took over ownership of the marina and the port area. The tests were positive, and the owners have been given the green light to start daily catamaran service between the two islands.

The vessel can carry up to 400 passengers and 18 vehicles.

Establishing a catamaran link between Malta and Marina di Ragusa gained great momentum following the news in October 2023 that Ponte Ferries had suspended its catamaran service between Valletta and Pozzallo, a year after launching the route to rival the long-established Virtu’ Ferries.

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/portoturisticomarinadiragusa

Jan 12
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Three modern and eco-friendly RoRo vessels for Airbus

By 2024 Newsletter week 02

Deltamarin is collaborating with Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) and Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group (WSIG) to design eco-friendly vessels for Airbus subassembly transportation. These ships aim to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2030. LDA is modernizing its entire chartered vessel fleet for Airbus, with Deltamarin handling the design. The vessels will be powered by Flettner rotors and dual-fuel engines, minimizing their environmental impact and cutting annual CO2 emissions from 68,000 to 33,000 tonnes by 2030.

Jan 12
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Record-breaking passenger volumes for Wasaline in 2023

By 2024 Newsletter week 02

Wasaline announced excellent results for 2023.

+4.4% passengers

+14.3% cars

+11.6% buses

-5.9% cargo units, mostly due to the ending of traffic to and from Russia. The volume of imported paper has decreased due to lower demand. Export from Finland has remained approximately at the same level.

Turnover for Wasaline stayed the same compared to 2022.

Wasaline expects the first two quarters of 2024 to be difficult for both passenger and freight services due to the current economic downturn.

The shipping company is closely monitoring the (heavy) ice conditions in the Kvarken strait and is prepared to reduce the frequency of departures if necessary.

Jan 12
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DFDS December volumes: freight 2% lower, passengers 8% higher

By 2024 Newsletter week 02

Ferry – freight:

  • Total volumes in December 2023 were 2.4% below 2022.
  • North Sea volumes were below 2022 due to volume decrease between the UK and the Netherlands while all other routes were above 2022.
  • Mediterranean volumes were below 2022 following lower volumes between Istanbul and Italy due to primarily timing differences in automotive manufacturing. All other routes were above 2022.
  • Channel volumes continued to be above 2022 driven by the Dover Strait routes.
  • Baltic Sea volumes were below 2022 due to a lower activity level in Sweden and the Baltic countries.
  • In 2023, the total transported freight lane metres decreased 7.9% to 38.4m from 41.7m in 2022. The decrease was 4.2% adjusted for Channel.

Ferry – passenger:

  • The number of passengers in December increased 8.1% following more Channel passengers as well a higher number of passengers on the routes connecting Norway-Denmark and UK-Netherlands.
  • The number of cars increased 4.0%.
  • In 2023, the total number of passengers increased 19.4% to 4.5m from 3.8m in 2022.
Jan 06
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AS Tallink Grupp Statistics

By 2024 Newsletter week 01

In December 2023 AS Tallink Grupp transported:

  • +6% passengers 491,222
  • -23.9% cargo units 22,514
  • -1.7% passenger vehicles 59,577

In the fourth quarter of 2023 (October-December) AS Tallink Grupp transported:

  • +3.3% passengers 1,338,921
  • -20.7% cargo units 76,198
  • -1.5% passenger vehicles 172,972

During the full year 2023, Tallink Grupp transported:

  • +4.5% passengers 5,705,600 passengers across all the company’s routes. Passenger numbers increased on the company’s current regular Estonia-Finland and Estonia-Sweden routes compared to 2022 but decreased on the Finland-Sweden routes due to a smaller number of vessels operating.
  • +2.6% passenger vehicles 840 881
  • -20.9% cargo units 323 990 units

Summary of what Tallink Grupp’s CEO Paavo Nõgene said:

  • 2023 has been a year of more slow and steady recovery.
  • No sharp increase because some vessels are chartered out.
  • Chartering out makes perfect sense from an operational and risk reduction point of view as the markets are not ready yet for increased capacity on our routes.
  • Addition of MyStar to the Tallinn-Helsinki route is a success.

Photo: Tallink Shuttle vessel MyStar, photo credit: Marten Merila

Jan 06
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Norled wins the Stokkvågen tender

By 2024 Newsletter week 01

Norled won the tender for the ferry connections Stokkvågen-Lovund and Stokkvågen-Træna after delivering a concept that cuts emissions by up to 90%.

Three new battery-hybrid ferries will enter the connection in 2027.

The three new buildings that will join the connection will all have capacity for 60 passenger cars and 250 passengers including crew.

The battery capacity for each of the ferries is approximately 8,000 kWh, making them the ferries with the largest battery capacity in Norway.

Norled has entered into a letter of intent with the shipyard Havyard for the construction of three of the battery ferries and also has an option for a fourth vessel.

LMG Marine has designed the ferries.