How Norled Is Moving The Ferry Industry To Zero-Emission [Interview]
How is the marine industry responding to the increasing number of emissions regulations? Interview with Ivan Østvik, project manager at Norled AS.
Hamburg Cruise Day Parade As Seen From Catamaran Ferry
On September 14, Hamburg had its bi-annual cruise parade during the Blue Port event. Five cruise ships started from the Elbphilharmonie and passed the Elbe Promenade and Landungsbrücken. The whole weekend attracted half a million of people.
Ferry Shipping News was of course onboard a ferry, in that case the HALUNDER JET from FRS HelgoLine.
HALUNDER JET arrives from Helgoland.
AIDAperla, MEIN SCHIFF 4, MSC PREZIOSA, EUROPA, WORLD EXPLORER were the five cruise ships leading the parade.
Although not a ferry, this Grimaldi Group owned conro ATLANTIC SAIL (ACL) was in the Blohm + Voss drydock.
ELYROS Back Home
After its season with Algérie Ferries, ANEK’s ELYROS was seen arriving in Greece last Sunday (22 September).
New Advanced Double-Ended Ships for P&O Ferries
P&O FERRIES has signed a contract with Guangzhou Shipyard International Ltd worth €260 million to deliver a new generation of ships on the English Channel.
- Two 230-metre super-ferries – the largest ever to sail between Dover and Calais – will be operational by 2023.
- Two options 2024
- Cutting fuel use by 40 per cent through a combination of fuel and battery propulsion.
- The heat recovery system saves fuel and reduces the vessel’s carbon footprint by using a steam system to provide heating for ULSFO fuel heaters, fuel tanks, FO/LO purifier heaters and HVAC system reheating. In addition, a heat pump will be used for HVAC system preheating, domestic hot water, machinery rooms and technical spaces below deck 8.
- Future proofing anticipates the ‘zero carbon emissions ship’. The ship is designed with the capacity to be carbon neutral in the future on the twin assumptions that there are more electric shore charging stations in ports and batteries.
- A double-ended design and two bridges on the ship, meaning that there is no need for it to turn around.
- Outside deck areas to provide viewing platforms of the White Cliffs of Dover.
- Panoramic sea views for passengers.
- A power management system to close down parts of the ship when not in use.
- Revolutionary new shape of hull for the English Channel and azimuth thrusters which increase manoeuvrability of the ship.
- The naval architects for the project are OSK-ShipTech A/S.
Evaluating The Greek Summer Season And Much More, With Spiros Paschalis, CEO Attica Group
Ferry Shipping News was in Athens this week, grabbing the golden opportunity to meet with Spiros Paschalis, CEO Attica Group.
How was the summer season? How is Hellenic Seaways’ integration doing? What are the plans for new tonnage? Etc…
It was finally decided by the Hellenic Ministry of Mercantile Marine that Zante Ferries’ ADAMANDIOS KORAIS (6.307gt/1987) will serve the Alexandroupolis-Samothraki line until October 31, 2019.
After that period, the route will be re-proclaimed along with all the country’s remote islands routes for the new season (November 2019-October 2020).
Zante Ferries expressed its interest for the specific line answering to the Ministry’s relevant call and it seems to be ready to compete with Saos Ferries for the line.
On September 16, 2019 expired the time-charter of A-Ships Management’s GALAXY (10,553gt/1979) in the Western Mediterranean.
The ship was chartered to the Moroccan INTERSHIPPING – for a period of 3 months – in order to serve the Algeciras-Tanger Med line for the Marhaba 2019.
Photo: Salvador de la Rubia
Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) has appointed naval architecture consultancy, naValue GmbH, to support the project for the new ferry to operate on the busy Islay route.
Flensburg-based naValue GmbH was founded in 2019 by three well-known partners (photo: Thomas Ritte, Carsten Ortloff and Jens Heyer) who had previously assumed leading roles and positions in Ship Design, Project Management, R&D, Quality Management, Sales and After Sales & Warranty at the Flensburg shipyard.
Scottish Ministers have agreed that the next major CalMac vessel to be commissioned will be for Islay. The Islay ferry project is now in its early stages and is being led by Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL), CalMac and Transport Scotland. The project will be shaped by consultation with the island community and a robust business case.
The new ferry will be designed to complement the service provided by FINLAGGAN, which currently operates on the Islay route, although it will be developed with a clear focus on freight, including the capability to operate a possible overnight freight service. The Islay route is one of the busiest services for freight on the Clyde and Hebrides network, and the incoming ferry will support the island’s growing demand. Sufficient passenger accommodation will also be designed to meet anticipated passenger demand.
In a pilot project onboard MARIELLA, Viking Line has managed to reduce the amount of food waste by an estimated 27 tonnes in four months.
The food saved corresponds to almost 70,000 servings.
Food waste has been weighed and the data have been recorded.
“Now we have managed to reduce food waste per passenger by an average of 40 percent,” says Viking Line’s restaurant manager Janne Lindholm. “Savings have been made in particular by streamlining the work in the kitchen. We had a greater attention to the prepared quantities prepared. For example, in the buffet restaurant, passengers are served ready-made portions.”
The remaining waste is used for biogas production. With the help of bio-waste
from three ferries, we made biogas, the equivalent of 111,300 liters of MDO.
Turkish-based Sedef Shipbuilding announced on its website that Boreal Sjø has ordered three zero-emission ferries.
Two will have a capacity of 120 cars and 399 pax, and one 60 cars and 250 pax.
Moby Group In Legal Confrontation With The Bondholders
A legal conflict between Moby Group and the bondholders has just started.
A investors statement from the Milan-based ferry company says that “Moby S.p.A. has instructed legal counsel to defend it in insolvency proceedings brought before the Court of Milan by a number of claimants who have identified themselves as holders of an unspecified principal amount of Moby’s fixed rate senior secured notes originally issued in February 2016”.
The statement further adds: “Moby considers the allegations made by the claimants to be entirely groundless and, accordingly, intends to challenge the action taken by them by all appropriate means”.
Moby’s EUR 300 m bond is listed on the Luxembourg stock exchange.
