Trasmediterranea received the renewal of its license to operate the public service from Malaga and Almeria to the Spanish enclave of Melilla. The fact that the company did not ask for subsidies at all, is the reason why it was successful with its bid. Baleària submitted an offer of about €14 million, close to the official budget.
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Belfast Harbour has appointed Joe O’Neill as CEO, replacing Roy Adair who is retiring in spring 2018.
Joe joined the organisation in 1997, holding a number of roles within Belfast Harbour, including Commercial Manager and Port Manager before being appointed Commercial Director in 2005.
The Management Board of Croatian ferry company Jadrolinija has selected David Sopta as new CEO, after a three and a half months tender, to which twenty candidates reacted. David Sopta will replace Alan Klanac.
CELINE, CLdN’s first 8,000 lane metre ro-ro has left the Hyundai MiPo shipyard in Ulsan, South-Korea on September 8.
Her first stop will be in Singapore. Once in Europe she will serve either the UK-Zeebrugge or UK-Rotterdam route.
CLdN have six ro-ro’s on order, with three more MiPo sister vessels, and two other ships under construction in Croatia at the Uljanik shipyard. Options for respectively two and four more are still waiting to be declared.
