Stena Line Connects to Shore Power in Kiel
The new shore power facility in Kiel, inaugurated on 9 December, means that Stena Line now has the possibility to connect 14 vessels at seven terminals with onshore electricity during port stay.
The new connection in Kiel will reduce the CO2 emissions from the two vessels STENA SCANDINAVICA and STENA GERMANICA with 2,700 tonnes per year.
In total Stena Line reduce its CO2 emissions with shore power with 13,000 tonnes per year.
General Director of the ENTMV, Guerairia Ahcene, said that the company has lost 9 billion Algerian dinars (DZD)(=EUR 57 million), due to the corona pandemic.
He said that the company is struggling to pay its employees, because of the operational stop.
Although the company is receiving its newbuilt ferry in January, the general director already knows that the summer fleet capacity is too small. He calls for more new tonnage, and new ports of call.
A lot is being written about Naviera Armas and Trasmediterranea lately.
Naviera Armas is negotiating credits with banks and bondholders.
The latest news is that the Boluda Corporation is showing interest to acquire Trasmediterranea.
The Trinidad and Tobago’s government newbuilding HSC A.P.T. JAMES made a short stop in Malta while en route to Trinidad. She was built at the Austal Vietnam Shipyards and delivered on November 5, 2020. She will continue her long journey making another stop to Algeciras before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
In Trinidad, she will replace the HSC JEAN DE LA VALETTE of Virtu Ferries, which was chartered by the government of Trinidad in May 2019 in order to serve the local line and which will return to the Mediterranean service on the Valletta-Augusta or Catania line.
Hurtigruten Group has appointed Hedda Felin CEO of Hurtigruten Norway – where she will take the helm of Hurtigruten’s iconic coastal Norway operations. (press release)
The Tunisian Minister of Transport and Logistics, Moez Chakchouk, announced that he is finalising a study which would enable the national ferry company CTN to acquire new ships in 2022.
The VOLCÁN DE TABURIENTE, from Naviera Armas, is the first vessel to have been connected to shore power in the port of San Sebastián de La Gomera.
Dwarfed
Roro MISIDA looks very small when passing THIALF and SLEIPNIR in Rozenburg, Rotterdam. The latter is Worlds’ biggest semi-submersible crane vessel, powered by LNG.
MISIDA is currently being chartered by Sea-Cargo.
