Former Bass Strait ro-pax BRIDGE (built in 1976 as BASS TRADER and known in Europe as MERCEDES DEL MAR, Iscomar, and BLUE BRIDGE, Blue Ferries) has left Albania, bound for Port Said. Her new name, DUBA BRIDGE, says it all about her new role. As many other European ferry veterans, she will operate on the Duba (Saudi-Arabia) – Safaga (Egypt) Red Sea route.
Photo © Neven Jerkovic
The German Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) has awarded LHG (Ports of Lübeck and Travemünde) funding from the Innovative Port Technologies (IHATEC) program.
Together with the University of Lübeck, LHG is working as a consortium leader on a concept for an integrated booking and disposition platform “RoRo-Hafen-4.0”.
The aim of the project is to control the flow of information along entire transport chains and make it available to all parties involved. A feasibility study can now be started.
Photo © Mike Louagie
Port of Bilbao, Spain, has started to build an additional ro-ro ramp. It will be the eighth ramp in the Basque port and will be completed by the beginning of next year.
Source: Stornoway Gazette
Photo © Mike Louagie
Red Funnel is going to spend £3m on a major refurbishment of its ro-pax ferry RED EAGLE in the New Year.
The work will be similar to the new look given to RED FALCON and RED OSPREY in 2014 and 2015. The main contract has been awarded to Trimline in Southampton, with aluminium fabrication work contracted to Wight Shipyard Ltd in East Cowes. The refit will be carried out in Southampton.
Photo © Red Funnel
Port of Bilbao, Spain, has started to build an additional ro-ro ramp. It will be the eighth ramp in the Basque port and will be completed by the beginning of next year.
Source: Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International
Map: ro-ro and ro-pax connections
Viking Line disclosed that the new cruise ferry, being built by Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry in China, will have interiors designed by the Swedish architecture firm Koncept Stockholm.
Koncept Stockholm previously did the interiors for the Stockholm hotel Haymarket by Scandic. It is their first ship interior design project.
The focus will be on the travelling experience through the most beautiful archipelagos.
Photo: Koncept Stockholm
The Port of Naantali has started to extend an existing quay from 178m to 228m in order to create additional vessel handling infrastructure.
This will support Finnlines’ plans to expand its traffic between Finland, Åland and Sweden, enabling Finnlines larger vessels to enter the port.
The €4m construction work has started in September 2017 and the works should be ready before May.
Photo © Port of Naantali
Denmark’s first new 100% electric, 59,5m-long ferry, Ærøfærgerne’s ELLEN, arrived from Stettin in Poland, at the Søby Shipyard for completion.
Τhe objective of the E-ferry project is to demonstrate that a 100% electric, emission free, medium sized ferry can transport passengers, cars and trucks on longer distances than previously seen.
The ferry is designed for medium-range connections such as Søby – Fynshav (10.7 nm) and Søby – Faaborg (9.6 nm), but ranges of more than 20 nm are realistic.
Photo © Søby Shipyard
The Greek Theodoropoulos Shipyard launched ferry GLYKOFILOUSA IV on September 20. She’s a sistership to GLYKOFILOUSA V, which took the water in January 2017.
Both shortsea vessels are 107m long and feature space for 1,000 passengers and 236 cars. Interiors are very luxurious for such type of vessels.
They will first serve Salamina Island and are thereafter likely to be sold abroad.
The yard has published a highly professional video of the launch on YouTube
Source: Ferryvolution via Facebook
Photo © Theodoropoulos Group
Queues of lorries will stretch back some 17 miles (27km) across Kent’s roads if Britain leaves the European Union without a deal, the Port of Dover has claimed.
Port of Dover produced a video, explaining how efficient trucks are being processed now, and how it would turn into a disaster if even only two minutes extra would be needed post-Brexit.
The video was shown at the Conservative party conference and can be seen on YouTube.
Source: Kent News and Port of Dover
