Tallink In November: Less Passengers Due To Scheduled Maintenance.
In November 2018 AS Tallink Grupp transported 5.5% less passengers, and 6.5% less cars as in November 2017.
The number of cargo units increased by 1.5%.
The reason is that the cruise ferry SILJA SERENADE did not operate on the route for 12 days, due to scheduled maintenance.
Brittany Ferries To Offer Year-round Service Out Of Ireland
Building on the launch of its new Cork to Santander route in 2018, Brittany Ferries has introduced a new winter sailing schedule designed to facilitate its Ireland to Spain freight traffic.
This new winter service will allow hauliers to bypass UK over Brexit fears
The port extension issue in Ystad (Sweden) has been settled. The City Council gave the green light, after some politicians expressed their opposition before.
Social Democrats have proposed a billion investment in the city’s port area, while the Moderate Party said the possibilities for external funding should be examined first.
The EU already granted support.
ALF POLLAK has kindly been photographed by our Danish friend Peter Therkildsen. The ship is still at anchor near Fayard, awaiting to start her (sub)charter with CLdN.
VISBORG Has Been Delivered
Rederi AB Gotland’s new ro-pax, VISBORG, has been christened last Saturday in China.
The video shows the new ferry during her sea trials
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Earlier this year a truly unique event occurred. Dublin Port welcomed two of the world’s largest short-sea ro-ro vessels on the same day. That’s is almost 16,000 lane-meters, with only two ships.
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Onorato Armatori Announced That Newbuilt Ro-Ro ALF POLLACK Will Be Chartered By Cobelfret
Onorato Armatori of Italy, controlled by Vincenzo Onorato, head of Moby group, publicly announced that the new ro-ro ship ALF POLLAK will be chartered out to a company based in Northern Europe, instead of being deployed in the Med as previously anticipated.
The charterer will be Cobelfret’s Cldn, which offers regular connections from the European continent to the British Isles, Scandinavia and Spain.
The contract is for one year.
ALF POLLAK (capacity for 310 semi-trailers on 4,076 lane meter of garage deck) has just been delivered in bare boat charter to Onorato Armatori by the German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft trough SIEM Group and is currently installing the scrubbers at Fayard shiprepair.
Onorato Armatori said in a statement that “the ro-ro market in the Mediterranean is not mature enough to receive such a big ro-ro vessel with a capacity of over 4,000 lane metres”.
What will happen with the sister vessel still under construction (photo) remains to be seen.
Norled won the competition to operate a hydrogen ferry that will serve the route Hjelmeland-Nesvik-Skipavik in Rogaland, Norway.
As with the battery-operated AMPERE, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration has designed the tender as a ‘development contract’.
At least 50% of the propulsion power must be from hydrogen. The remaining energy must come from batteries. Today, no comparable hydrogen powered vessels are in operation.
The contract period lasts for 10 years and runs from 15 April 2021 to 28 February 2031.
LMG Marin is Norled’s partner in designing this ferry.
FosenNamsos Sjø has taken delivery of the two new plug-in hybrid ferries LAGATUN and MUNKEN. They will be used on the Flakk – Rørvik route as from 1 January.
The hulls have been built at the Montex Shipyard in Gdansk, and equipped at the Myklebust Verft in Norway, after a Multi Maritime design.
The Irish Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) examined an incident involving the Irish Ferries ro-pax EPSILON, which happened in February 2016. The report has been published and can be downloaded via the link below.
What happened: after sailing from Cherbourg to Dublin the Italian-flagged vessel experienced adverse weather conditions (Force 10, waves 6-9m), causing cargo shifts, damage and injuries to people.
Some issues: Senior Master versus Duty Master, cargo securing, weather forecasting.
Conclusions in paragraph 5, and safety recommendations in paragraph 6.
