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Sep 03
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Tallink Grupp Begins Extensive Reorganisation

By 2020 Newsletter week 36

Tallink informed the company’s staff that it will this week notify the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund and the Estonian Independent Maritime Workers Union of commencing further collective redundancies processes.

In addition, the company has initiated a further collective redundancies process in Latvia.

Within the company’s Finnish subsidiary, extensive lay-offs of both onshore and onboard personnel are already in place, which will continue for now either full time or part time. Nearly all 1,200 Tallink Silja OY employees are affected by the lay-offs.

Altogether, the processes will impact up to 2,500 Tallink Grupp employees

Paavo Nõgene, CEO of Tallink Grupp, asked for support of the State. “Germany is a good example of the state offering vital support to businesses, with salary compensation schemes being extended in the country at least until the end of 2021.”

Sep 03
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More GNV Ships Deployed To Accommodate Quarantined Migrants

By 2020 Newsletter week 36

GNV ALLEGRA is the third GNV ferry deployed as accommodation vessel for quarantined migrants.

Soon after this news, it was announced that also RHAPSODY and SNAV ADRIATICO from GNV’s fleet are en route to Palermo and will be deployed as accomodation vessels for migrants/

With GNV AZZURA and AURELIA, selected earlier by the Italian government and still employed, that makes 5 GNV ships on charter to the Government.

Since the summer season in Sardinia is ending earlier than expected (covid-19 infections were on the rise in august among tourists), many ferries are available.

Sep 03
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The FSG Flensburg Shipyard is Reborn

By 2020 Newsletter week 36

The execution of the purchase agreement has taken place as scheduled: several companies belonging to Tennor Holding have taken over 350 employees of the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) as well as the assets of the shipyard within the scope of a transferable restructuring as of 1 September, 2020.

In order to continue the restructuring process started in the insolvency proceedings, the new managing directors Stefan Kindler and Tarek Malak, who were seconded by Tennor Holding, will further build up the organization.

By the winter of 2020, the management of the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft will be placed in the hands of a management team with years of experience. The talks are already well advanced. Their task will be to give the FSG a strategic orientation and to win further shipbuilding contracts in order to fill the shipyard on the Flensburg Fjord with civil and military newbuildings

Sep 03
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FERRY PORTS

By 2020 Newsletter week 36

Sustainable Inland Waterways Project in The Stockholm Region

Ports of Stockholm, Hutchison Ports Stockholm, Mälarhamnar and Wallenius Marine have built a unique partnership to launch inland shipping between Stockholm Norvik Port and the strategically positioned Mälarhamnar ports of Västerås and Köping.

Ports of Stockholm’s all-new freight port, Stockholm Norvik Port, opened in May in a location that offers new opportunities for efficient and sustainable transportation in the expanding Stockholm and Mälardalen region.

Sep 03
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IN THE MEDIA

By 2020 Newsletter week 36

French Government Vows to Save Brittany Ferries

The French Government is looking at possibilities to help  Brittany Ferries: exemptions from social contributions, increased support for training, the revival of tourism, possible additional authorized Covid-19 aid and eventually adjustment of the terms of the loan guaranteed by the State.

Port of Piraeus Among the First 100 Ports

According to Lloyd’s List data report, the Port of Piraeus gets the seventh place among the first hundred ports that achieved significant increases in their volumes %.

Furthermore, in 2019 the Port of Piraeus overshadowed the other Mediterranean ports, recording the highest increase (15.1%) and became the largest port in TEU terms in the region.

The Greek port ranked first on the Mediterranean top five ports for 2019, followed by Valencia, Algeciras, Tanger-Med and Barcelona.

Sep 03
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SHORT NEWS

By 2020 Newsletter week 36

FLANDRIA SEAWAYS, fifth DFDS mega freight ferry from Jinling Shipyard, was delivered on September 1st.

She will set sail on Friday 4 September and reach Vlaardingen (via Singapore and Suez) in late September. She is expected to begin operating between Vlaardingen and Immingham on October 5.