Electric ferry HEILHORN is being tested during the night, taking over from LYSINGEN.
HEILHORN is a hybrid electric ferry. (delivered 2020 / 84.30m / 199 pax / 60 cars)
In a third review of its budget, the Åland Government has allocated four million euros for a second-hand ferry for the Åva – Osnäs line.
The vessel will be put into service in 2023, as soon as the port of Åva is completed.
The procurement of the ferry is already in the final stages, writes Nya Åland.
The UK is to delay introducing post-Brexit checks on food and farming imports to England, Scotland and Wales, blaming Covid disruption and pressure on global supply chains, writes the BBC.
- € 37.4m consolidated revenue
- € 15.3m EBITDA
- € 8.1m consolidated Net Earnings after Taxes
- the performance of the parent company ThPA S.A. increased from € 34.7m, to € 37m in the 1st semester of 2021 (6.8%), with €1.5m additional revenues from the container terminal (6.2%) and €0.9m additional revenues from the conventional cargo terminal (9%).
Since arriving off Sri Lanka on August 27, the former ropax ferry PETERSBURG, MUKRAN has become a straying ship [MarineTraffic]
She is wandering in the Indian Ocean, successively heading east, west, north, south and drifting. Her owner no longer seems to know what to do with her. DEEP ONE does not leave international waters. Currently, her theoretical destination is Singapore. She has been at sea for 55 days and has sailed almost 10,000 km.
The vessel was transformed into a floating water-making factory. Eventually she escaped from arrest in Sète, France.
Two months after the opening of the new lines in the Balearics, GNV announces the new connection from Barcelona with Ciutadella de Menorca (via Palma de Mallorca) with GNV SEALAND (2,255 lane metres and 195 cars, 880 pax).
GNV BRIDGE (delivered June 2021, with 2,564 lane metres and 157 cabins) will operate the connections between Valencia, Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza.
GNV has scheduled departures every day between the ports of Barcelona and Valencia, and Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza, in addition to the direct connection between Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza.
Purchasing individual routes is possible.
As from this week, ropax SAGA owned by Stena is back on the market, available for charter. The two-month lasting agreement with the Ancona-based ferry company Adria Ferries has just expired and the ship is now positioned in the southern part of the Adriatic Sea waiting for instructions.
For the last two months SAGA has been deployed on the route linking Italy (Ancona) with the port of Durrës, in Albania.
MSC announced the launch of a new, direct rail service connecting Trieste, Italy and Ludwigshafen, Germany available from 10 September 2021, designed to improve rail capacity and reduce transit time between Turkey and Germany to an estimated 12 days.
This service is directly in competition with the combined (roro and train) transport services offered on the same tradeline by DFDS and Ulusoy.
MSC specified that the service is designed to offer customers transporting automotive parts, chemicals, textiles, packaging, food, pharmaceuticals and many other commodities.. Ludwigshafen’s strategic position on the Rhine, with easy access to Frankfurt and Stuttgart and its importance as a centre for commerce make it an ideal location for both local goods distribution and access to the wider Northern European market.
The EU Commission has approved DFDS’ acquisition of the HSF Logistics Group announced on 26 January 2021.
HSF Logistics Group is one of Europe’s leading cold chain logistics providers to meat producers and other food producers that operate temperature-controlled supply chains.
TT-Line has had a substantial increase in volumes in recent years and is Port of Trelleborg’s largest customer. Currently, TT-Line has seven vessels operating the lines between Trelleborg and Travemünde, Rostock, Swinoujscie and Klaipeda. In 2022, the first of the two LNG 230m Green Ships, is expected to be put into operation.