‘Hansa Destinations’ doubles freight capacity and frequency between Nynäshamn and Rostock by adding a roro vessel.
Hansa Destinations fleet as from end of April:
Ship: roro ELIANA MARINO 2,500 lane metres, 12 drivers
Ship: ropax DROTTEN
Frequency goes from three to six departures a week in both directions.
The Swedish company Echandia, a leading developer of battery systems for maritime electrification, expands in the Norwegian market through the appointment of industry veteran Roy Storeng to lead the business development for Echandia in Norway.
Roy has an extensive background from the maritime and transport industry in Norway and abroad.
Echandia is a leading developer of zero-emission energy solutions for heavy-duty maritime electrification. Echandia has customers in Europe, Asia, and Oceania, including Cochin Shipyards, building the world’s largest fleet of electric ferries in Kochi, India, and the major global shipyard Damen Shipyard in the Netherlands.
BOTNIA SEAWAYS will be the new dedicated vessel restarting the temporarily suspended DFDS Calais-Sheerness route as from Monday 14th March, leaving Calais 23:59.
Calais <> Sheerness Schedule
Departs Sheerness : Tuesday – Sunday 11:00 hrs
Departs Calais : Monday – Saturday 23:59 hrs
OSK ShipTech writes in an interesting LinkedIn post: “We have to shift the lens from focusing only on the operational CO2 emissions of a newbuilding to also focus on and include the emissions related to building the ship in the first place!
The delivery of the Grimaldi Green 5th Generation class roro vessels is now halfway. Grimaldi Group took delivery of the ECO MALTA, the sixth of twelve state-of-the-art units ordered from the Chinese Jinling shipyard located in Nanjing.
UECC’s roro FINO (former AUTOPRIDE) was recently sold to a Greek interest shipping company: Star Skippers SA (care of United Sails SA , 17A, Kondyli Street, Glyfada, 166 75 Athens).
The ship has already departed from the port of Avonmouth in UK and is currently sailing to Piraeus.
FINO was built in 1997 in the Netherlands (Frisian Shipyard Welgelegen B.V.). She has a GT of 11,591. She has six car decks with a carrying capacity for 1,220 cars.
Photo: sister vessel AUTOPRESTIGE
Finnlines’ FINNCLIPPER is the ship that replaces the EUROFERRY OLYMPIA on the Igoumenitsa – Brindisi line.
She left Malmö on February 19 and arrived in Piombino, Italy, a week later for the necessary changes. Initially, she was transferred to the Grimaldi-Euromed fleet and then she will be renamed IGOUMENITSA and raise the flag of Cyprus.
Revenue +56.8%
Passenger revenue +89.7%
Passenger volume +87.5%
Freight revenue +28.5%
Cargo units +25.3%
Since AURORA BOTNIA was taken into operation on 28 August, the departure frequency increased by 39%
The result before year-end appropriations and taxes was EUR +628,392 (-726,893 in 2020).
Grandi Navi Veloci has officially announced the purchase of the ropax ship CAP FINISTÈRE from Brittany Ferries which is currently en route to the port of Naples where will be renamed GNV SPIRIT.
The Nuova Meccanica Navale shipyard will take care of it with some refitting works and repainting the vessel with the company’s distinctive livery.
Once she enters service before next summer season, GNV SPIRIT will take GNV’s fleet to 25 ferries.
Vincenzo Onorato’s holding company Onorato Armatori made public a statement in which he calls the Italian economic development Ministry to act as fast as possible in order to accept the debt restructuring plan proposed under the ‘concordato preventivo’ procedure.
Tirrenia in Amministrazione Straordinaria, the State-owned bad company born when the former public shipping company Tirrenia was sold to Moby in 2012, has a credit valued roughly EUR 180 million and its vote on the plan is particularly important for the positive (or negative) ending of this long-lasting story regarding Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione (Moby’s subsidiary controlling and operating Titrenia’s brand, ships and routes).
The Court of Milan postponed the meeting of creditors on 20th and 27th June 2022 respectively for Moby and CIN setting the date for 31 March 2022 as a deadline for filing, inter alia, the agreement with Tirrenia di Navigazione in Amministrazione Straordinaria which represents the main CIN creditor.