Key Factors to Consider when Assessing Lay-Up Options
A number of idle ferries and cruise ships are set to go into temporary lay-up, and more may follow as the situation changes from day to day. The following are key elements shipowners must weigh up as they ponder the optimal lay-up condition for each vessel.
The Italian company AvioInteriors has designed a kit-level solution that can be installed on existing aircraft seats to make close proximity safer among passengers sharing the same seat. Perhaps an idea for fast ferries and reclining chairs on ropax ferries?
Space Charter Agreement between Trasmediterranea and Balearia for Ceuta Route
The ferry PASSIÓ PER FORMENTERA is the only ship that transports cargo between Spain and Ceuta, since Tuesday, April 21.
A space charter agreement between Baleària and Trasmediterránea leaves only one single ship on the Ceuta route.
The article says that this arrangement does not comply with the terms of the public service contract.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications will not be extending the operation of its Paldiski-Sassnitz cargo transport link between Estonia and Germany.
Minister of Finance Martin Helme (EKRE) said the state plans to offer Tallink a liquidity loan of EUR 150 million, which could later be formalized as the state owning a stake in the company. However, Helme said it may be necessary to amend the law to carry this out.
Seven Ferry Friday
Captain Carsten Watsack took this stunning drone photo in Trelleborg on Friday April 17. Full house!
STENA INVICTA (1991)
STENA INVICTA was operating for Sealink Stena Line on the English Channel, between Dover and Calais.
Built in 1985 as PEDER PAARS for the Danish Railways DSB, she is still in service as COLOR VIKING between Sandefjord and Strömstad (although temporarily laid up).
LAURO EXPRESS (1999)
LAURO EXPRESS is lit by the warm colours of a setting sun. Her funnel has an unmistakeably British flair. Indeed, she was built on the Tyne as ANTRIM PRINCESS in 1967.
She was scrapped in 2007.
SCANIA (1998)
This photo shows SCANIA arriving in the small Swedish port of Limhamn, in the Öresund. Indeed, she was serving the route from Dragör, near Copenhagen. On the right you can see a part of the Öresundsbridge still under construction.
After a spell in Estonia followed by the Mediterranean she ended up in Fiji, where she is still in service as SPIRIT OF ALTRUISM.
This week Pedro Jesus Muñoz Lopez was so kind to send us some pictures taken in Palma de Mallorca on April 9.
I SEE ONE and I SEE THREE are two medium speed waterbus vessels built by Wight Shipyard, as a project of 4 (2 ships of 20m, 2 of 33m).
These vessels form an integral part of Fortina Investments’ innovative iSeeMalta concept, which provides visitors with access through a single pass to the ferry service, City Sightseeing buses, public transport as well as museums, Heritage Malta sites, entertainment spots and other attractions.
Interview with Ettore Morace, a Well-Known Name in the Ferry Industry
Ettore Morace is a very well-known name in the ferry industry. The former managing director of Tirrenia Cin and today still shareholder of the family company Liberty Lines, following a recent experience as general manager of Balearia in Spain, decided to go back to his work of shipbroker with the company Malta Shipbrokers International Ltd, founded with his son Vittorio.
In this exclusive interview with Ferry Shipping News, the first after several years of silence, he returns to talk about the market trend, his new business and the companies he worked for.
