DFDS will in 2019 invest DKK 300 million to install scrubbers on 12 ro-ro ferries deployed on freight routes in the Mediterranean between Turkey, Italy, Greece and France. The investment will ensure compliance with the new global sulphur rules as from 2020.
Seatruck Ferries have increased capacity and sailing frequency on their Dublin to Liverpool route.
Seatruck Ferries believes in a switch to greater volumes of unaccompanied movements from ports.
Warrenpoint-Heysham has just been increased by 30% with the introduction of the SEATRUCK PERFORMANCE and SEATRUCK PRECISION.
Photo: Seatruck Ferries Dublin terminal (courtesy Seatruck Ferries)
Canary Bridge Seaways (CBS): Baleària and Fred. Olsen Express have agreed to operate new routes between the Iberian Peninsula and the Canary Islands.
Photo: General Director of Fred. Olsen Express, Andrés Marín (left), and Baleària’s President Adolfo Utor (right). Photo Baleària.
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has issued a new tender for the Halsa-Kanestraum connection. This 20-minute ferry crossing connects the E39 between Møre og Romsdal and Trøndelag.
The start of the new 10-year contract is in 2021.
The three ferries that connect the connection today will have to be replaced by larger, environmental-friendly ferries. There will be more crossings too, 24/7.
In the new contracts, 95 per cent of the energy consumption must be emission-free
The route is actually operated by three Fjord1 ferries: SVANOY, RAUMA and ROMSDAL.
Port Of Ghent Connects DFDS’s Northern And Southern Route Network
By connecting the DFDS network with the new routes in southern Europe, DFDS is capable of offering transportation of cargo from North to South and back.
Compared to alternative solutions lead time is reduced with at least 1 day.
The new intermodal connection offers shipping transportation on the Gothenburg – Ghent and Trieste – Pendik/Ambarli/Mersin routes. There will also be a stopover in Patras, Greece.
DFDS will use Bettembourg in Luxembourg as the continental hub for the intermodal connection and has a solid cooperation over railways with CFL. Trailers are shunted from Bettembourg to Ghent over road, a second option via rail is being developed.
Photo: Tom D’haenens Port of Ghent
Stena Line Introduces First AI-Assisted Vessel
Stena Line is running a pilot study where artificial intelligence technology is implemented on board vessels.
Rolls-Royce has launched its latest in a series of LNG fuelled marine engines at the SMM maritime exhibition in Hamburg.
Keynote speakers from the military, merchant fleet and port sectors will feature when Interferry addresses three of shipping’s most important issues:
The 2018 Interferry conference in Cancun is hosted by Ultramar, Mexico’s leading passenger ferry company, and takes place on Monday and Tuesday October 8-9 as the core of a knowledge-sharing, networking and social event running from October 6-10.
Negative and challenging results for Moby S.p.A.
Summary. No comment.
(% 2018 versus 2017) H1, 2018 (H1, 2017)(in thousands)
-1.6% Revenues = -233,375 (-237,152)
Operating Profit = -39,340 (-3,546)
+158,2% Result Before Taxes = -57,768 (-22,372)
+144,4% Net Result = -60,208 (-24,632)
+153,7% Group Profit = -60,332 (-23,783)
Woodward Group Confirms It Bought Three Ferries
The provincial government of Labrador signed a new multiyear, CAD 362-million ferry deal with Woodward Group.
As announced last week in Ferry Shipping News 36, this company has purchased the three double-ended ice-class 1A ferries MUHUMAA, SAAREMAA and HIIUMAA .
What will happen with SAAREMAA is not clear
