The ex-TT Line veteran THEOFILOS of the collapsed Nel Lines seems to have escaped from the scrapyard.
The Central Harbor Master of Elefsis decided to suspend the open tender for her removal. According to the official document of the decision, the old ship has been awarded – for €380,000 – to Anen Lines.
However, the ship is in a very poor condition, laid up since 2013 and the cost of her possible repair is quite serious!
Attica Group eventually decided to install scrubbers on its ships, setting the completion period of that process in 2021.
According to the plans, the total cost for the purchase and installation of scrubbers on eight ferries will reach €26 million.
Viking Line: Improved Results During Third Quarter
January–September 2019
Third quarter 2019
Port Of Zeebrugge Accelerates Innovation By Investing In 5G Network
Port of Zeebrugge is to invest in a superfast critical communication network. 5G is the key technology that will be revolutionary, especially for industrial uses. The private 5G network in the Port of Zeebrugge will be the accelerator for innovation in and around the port.
In the first phase, the data network will be used for connectivity with tugboats, air pollution detectors, camera’s and quay sensors. For the new sea lock, which is to be constructed in the near future, the high-bandwidth and low-latency connectivity will prove to be an asset.
5G will be deployed at port companies for dispatching, connectivity with straddle carriers, track and trace systems and critical group communication.
Phase one, which will be operational by the end of this year, sets course for the use of the 5G network in Zeebrugge’s outer port. The second phase will include the inner port and will be implemented mid 2020.
UK Chamber Of Shipping Calls For More Hybrid Ferries
The UK Chamber of Shipping has called for a new Green Industrial Revolution in the UK to take advantage of the move to a cleaner, greener economy.
The Future Of Marine Fuels
Five projections of marine fuels from 2020 to 2050. Click on the picture for a large version.
New Thrusters For Scandlines Ferries
As the first of the four Scandlines hybrid ferries of the route Puttgarden-Rødby, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN has been sent to the Remontowa shipyard. Four new Kongsberg Maritime thrusters have been installed.
Scandlines is switching to high-tech pull thrusters, where the propeller sits on the front of the thruster for a more homogeneous flow through the water.
This significantly reduces underwater noise and vibrations. Underwater noise is an issue of increasing importance to environmental protection organizations as a number of marine animals are adversely affected by the underwater sound caused by shipping. On the Puttgarden-Rødby route, it is mainly the harbor porpoises that are affected.
All 16 thrusters on the hybrid ferries of the Puttgarden-Rødby route will be replaced. Simultaneously, the shape of the hull around each thruster has also been changed to further optimize the flow of water to the propulsion propeller.
One of the GenSets was also upgraded and replaced with a larger 4950 kW generator, which makes it possible to operate the ship with only one instead of two generators.
Italy’s antitrust authority has given its green light to the MSC – Messina deal which still remains now to be approved by the other foreign competent authorities (Austria, Spain, South Africa and some other countries on the East Coast of Africa).
The Rome-based agency said that the merger between the two companies will not restrict or concentrate too much competition in the container transport on the routes where MSC and Messina are active (Mediterranean – North Europe, Med – Middle East and Med – East Africa), in the terminal operators and inland logistics markets in Italy.
Following the agreement signed last June, Gianluigi Aponte’s Italian holding company Marinvest will invest €25m for a 49% stake in the Ignazio Messina & C. group and a 52% stake in a new vehicle called Ro-Ro Italia, controlling four of Messina’s eight modern conro ships (JOLLY DIAMANTE, JOLLY PERLA, JOLLY TITANIO and JOLLY COBALTO).
Messina has a financial exposure of over €450m, mainly with Banca Carige, related to a fleet renovation plan completed between 2011 to 2015, with the delivery of 8 new conro ships from Daewoo and STX shipyards.
The ropax FORZA, controlled by Grimaldi Holding, is being retrofitted by San Giorgio del Porto shipyard in the port of Genoa for the installation of scrubbers ahead of the January, 1st deadline when the new IMO rules come into force. Next January, TENACIA will be undergoing the same retrofit.
On both vessels, open-loop and hybrid-ready scrubbers will be installed with the potential to shift those technologies to closed-loop scrubbers.
