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Mar 08
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…And Four More Electric Ferries For Fjord1

By 2018 Newsletter week 10

Fjord1 ASA ordered four Multi-Maritime designed battery ferries.
Three of the ferries will be of the new “MM82FE EL” design, which is approx. 85 m long. The ferries will operate all electric on challenging routes.
Two will operate at “Ranavik-Skjersholmane”, which is a 14.2 km long route and a service speed of approx. 13 knots. The expected charging power is up to 5000 kW. The third ferry will operate at Gjermundshamn-Årsnes.
The three ferries will be built at Sefine Shipyard in Turkey (new buildings 33, 34 & 35) and delivered in Q3 and Q4 2019.
The fourth ferry is 116m long and of “MM111FE EL” design. The vessel is planned to operate at Jondal-Tørvikbygd from 01.01.2020.
The ferry will be built by Tersan Shipyard in Turkey and scheduled delivery is Q2 2019.

Boreal Sjø ordered a Multi-Maritime-designed ferry too, of the “MM70FE EL” series. She will be built by Vard Brevik in Norway. The ferry will operate on the Kvanndal-Utne route.

Photo: MM82FE-EL by Multi-Maritime

Mar 08
Love0

Stena Line Introduces Battery Power, With Great Ambitions

By 2018 Newsletter week 10

Stena Line signed a contract with Callenberg Technology Group for batteries with a capacity of 1 MWh, which will be installed on STENA JUTLANDICA.
This ro-pax operates between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn.
The battery project will be completed step by step.

  • Step one: switching on battery power for bow thrusters and maneuvering when berthing in port.
  • Step two: an extended battery operation is connected to the propellers, meaning that Stena Jutlandica can be operated on electricity within around 10 nautical miles, equal to the distance between Göteborg and Vinga Lighthouse.
  • Step three: battery capacity is further expanded and a vessel can operate about 50 nautical miles of electricity corresponding to the distance between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn.
Mar 08
Love0

Deltamarin For DFDS, OSK For MSC/Moby

By 2018 Newsletter week 10

Deltamarin Ltd has signed a contract with Chinese Guangzhou Shipyard International Co, Ltd (GSI) for consultancy and engineering services for the DFDS ro-pax ferries.

DFDS originally signed a contract with OSK-ShipTech for the development of the outline concepts and tender documents, for both the ro-ro vessels now contracted at Jinling, and the ro-pax vessels contracted at GSI.

When MSC/GNV/Moby decided to order ferries at GSI too, DFDS said it wanted to prefer to have an advisor not involved in both projects.

The shipbuilding contract for two ro-pax ferries was signed on February 12 between DFDS and GSI. Both ro-pax ships are planned to be delivered in 2021.

The 4,500 lane metres, 600-pax ships will be deployed on one of the Baltic routes connecting Lithuania to either Sweden or Germany.

Mar 08
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DFDS Vessel Swap And Chartered Tonnage After Collision

By 2018 Newsletter week 10

On March 3, the DFDS ro-ro vessel PRIMULA SEAWAYS was hit by the container vessel MSC MADRID during PRIMULA’s outbound voyage from Ghent to Brevik.
The collision caused damage to the ro-ro vessel, which might be out of service for some weeks.

DFDS decided to swap PETUNIA SEAWAYS to Ghent – Gothenburg instead, and to put ARK GERMANIA on Gothenburg – Immingham instead. PETUNIA SEAWAYS brings much needed capacity on the busy Belgium – Sweden route.

In addition, DFDS have the MAESTRO SEA on charter and more charters are not excluded.

Watch the collision track on YouTube and see a picture of the damage on pzc.nl photographed by Adri van de Wege.

Mar 08
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Port Of Ystad Focal Point Of Meeting In European Parliament

By 2018 Newsletter week 10

A round table meeting held in Brussels on Wednesday 28 focused on the possibility of expanding the Baltic-Adriatic transport corridor to also include Port of Ystad, connecting Scandinavia to the continent. The Baltic-Adriatic transport corridor is one of the most important trans-European road and railway axes and currently stretches from northern Italy via Bratislava and Vienna to Poland and the Szczecin-Świnoujście port.

Port of Ystad once again celebrated another year of record numbers in 2017, with significant increases in traffic on both routes; Ystad – Świnoujście and Ystad – Rønne.

In the finishing panel discussion, the European Commission representatives stated that Port of Ystad is a likely candidate for becoming a Core harbor, thus becoming part of the transport corridor.

Photo: Danish MEP Jeppe Kofoed (standing) at the round table meeting concerning Port of Ystad.

Mar 08
Love0

€11.7 Million Euros To Develop An All-Electric High-Speed Passenger Vessel

By 2018 Newsletter week 10

This news is from end of January, but still relevant: Rogaland County Municipality and NCE Maritime CleanTech have been awarded €11.7 million to develop an all-electric high-speed passenger vessel to operate between Stavanger and Hommersåk on the west coast of Norway.
This is one of the largest amounts to have been awarded to a single project in the EU’s Horizon2020 research program, and the project will help revolutionize Norwegian production of zero emission vessels.
The vessel will be built by Norwegian shipyard Fjellstrand.
The project will also conduct two studies for the same type of vessel in London and the inland waterways of Belgium.

Mar 08
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TRADE ASSOCIATIONS AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS

By 2018 Newsletter week 10

ESPO Asks Brexit Negotiators To Prioritise Impact For Ports In The Assessment Of Potential Post-Brexit Scenarios

The European Sea Ports Organisation has developed a position paper to submit to the negotiators now that Brexit has entered the second phase.
With this paper, ESPO calls on the Brexit negotiators to prioritise transport and more in particular maritime transport in the second phase of the Brexit negotiations.

Mar 08
Love0

IN THE MEDIA

By 2018 Newsletter week 10

New Finnlines service between Scotland and Spain

On March 1, Finnlines launched a new ro-ro connection between the Scottish port of Rosyth and Bilbao. The new service is added to those that already link Bilbao with Belgium, Finland, Estonia, Russia, the UK and Sweden.
Source: Cadena de Suministro

Mar 08
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SHORT NEWS

By 2018 Newsletter week 10

SPITSBERGEN is the first Hurtigruten ship to connect to shore power when being alongside for 8 hours in the port of Bergen. The first cold ironing took place on March 1. Other ships of the fleet will follow.

Photo: Eivind Senneset/Hurtigruten/Bergen Havn

  • Sea Transport Solutions, the designers of medium-speed ro-pax catamarans, have announced the delivery of a 74m ro-pax to Trinidad. The 800-pax, 100-car 22-knot ferry GALLEONS PASSAGE left Hong Kong on March 1 for Port of Spain.
  • In February 2018 AS Tallink Grupp transported 4.9% less passengers and less 2.8% cars compared to last year. The number of cargo units increased by 7.0%. The figures for February 2018 can be consulted here.
  • Telenor Maritime announced the introduction of the mobile ecosystem onboard the Finnlines ro-pax ships, deploying a connectivity platform with Mobile/3G, Premium Wi-Fi, Ka-VSAT and mobile broadband backhaul. Finnlines is the first to install the latest connectivity platform.
Mar 01
Love0

FERRY FINANCE

By 2018 Newsletter week 09

Tallink Grupp Earns Record Amount Of EUR 967 Million Revenue In 2017

According to the unaudited financial results, Tallink Grupp AS earned a record amount of EUR 967 million revenue in 2017. In addition, the group’s highest ever number of passengers in one year – over 9.8 million – significantly increased the revenue of the group’s restaurants and shops to nearly 537 million euros, taking the Grupp’s net profit for 2017 to a total of EUR 49 million.

Compared to the previous financial year, the Grupp’s turnover increased by 3.1% and the net profit by 11.8%.

The launch of the Grupp’s newest vessel, Megastar, on the Tallinn-Helsinki route early in the year increased the capacity of this route and improved the efficiency.

The most positive development in 2017 was the growth of the cargo business. The Cargo volumes increased in all geographical segments in total by 11.0%, the cargo revenues increased by 13.3% or EUR 13.8 million compared to last year and amounted to EUR 117.7 million in 2017.