On 14 July, the European Commission published its so-called “Fit for 55”-package, a package of proposals which should help deliver on the European Climate Law target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by at least 55% by 2030, and enable climate neutrality by 2050.
The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) welcomes the new “Fit for 55”-proposals as an important first step towards reaching the European Green Deal ambition and the 2030 and 2050 goals enshrined in the EU Climate Law.
“For Europe’s ports it is essential to ultimately achieve a policy that is effective in reducing emissions, is coherent, keeps an eye on the competitiveness of Europe’s port sector, is future-proof and does not create stranded assets or additional administrative burden for ports. It should take the diversity of the European port and maritime sector into due consideration,” says ESPO’s Secretary General Isabelle Ryckbost.
“As a starting point, the “Fit for 55” programme looks very reasonable, and we feel that we have been heard,” says Executive Director of Security, Environment and Maritime Research, Maria Skipper Schwenn.
“If the EU plays its cards right, the tariffs in the proposal could be used to put pressure on the global CO2-prices at the IMO, and consequently contribute to creating unified, international solutions,” says Maria Skipper Schwenn.
Marine Atlantic Charters Stena’s 10th E-Flexer
Canadian Marine Atlantic has entered into a 5-year charter agreement with Stena North Sea Ltd. to supply a new RoPax vessel.
After our extra ‘breaking news’ edition of Ferry Shipping News, we are pleased to share this link for more detailed information.
To be added to the above Stena RoRo list:
Aiming at constant improvement of its services, Attica Group announces the new itineraries of high-speed vessels HIGHSPEED 4, HELLENIC HIGHSPEED and FLYING CAT 3 in the Aegean Sea, in order to provide passengers with even more travel options.
Different departure times and reduced travel times from Piraeus and Rafina (to Cyclades, Ikaria, Fourni, Patmos, Leros and Kalymnos) are increasing the competition with SeaJets.
Aiming at constant improvement of its services, Attica Group announces the new itineraries of high-speed vessels HIGHSPEED 4, HELLENIC HIGHSPEED and FLYING CAT 3 in the Aegean Sea, in order to provide passengers with even more travel options.
Different departure times and reduced travel times from Piraeus and Rafina (to Cyclades, Ikaria, Fourni, Patmos, Leros and Kalymnos) are increasing the competition with SeaJets.
At the occasion of a conference held this week, the executive manager of Grimaldi Euromed, Eugenio Grimaldi, announced the interest of the Naples-based Group to invest in the port of Ravenna and make a hub for the roro traffic in the Adriatic sea.
Following the recent withdrawal of Tirrenia Cin, today Grimaldi Euromed is the only player active on the routes linking Ravenna with Brindisi and Catania, progressively increasing frequency and tonnage deployed.
“Now we are offering eight sailings per week inbound and outbound from Ravenna using roro ship with a capacity for 250 trailers. Compared with the numbers of 2019 we are experiencing a +2% volume increase in the first half of 2021” Eugenio Grimaldi stated. Also adding that “we would be interested at investing in the port of Ravenna and, thanks also to the inland terminal of Bologna, there are big potential opportunities to increase the trains for transporting trailers and roro to and from Central and Eastern Europa using the port as a hub also for Grimaldi’s maritime connections”.
As of today, the roro terminal of the port of Ravenna (operated by T. & C. – Traghetti e Crociere S.R.L.) is still fully controlled by the local port authority.
Ropax SAGA, former STENA SAGA, arrived in the port of Ancona after being chartered for the summer season by the local ferry company Adria Ferries, company part of Frittelli Maritime Group.
The CEO of the company, Alberto Rossi, confirmed to Ferry Shipping News that the vessel will be operated on the routes linking Italy (Ancona or less likely Bari) with the port of Durrës, in Albania.
SAGA remained unemployed for some weeks off the port of Gibraltar following a long lay-up in Uddevalla, Sweden.
Rossi said that, “if the port of Bari will solve in a very short period of time the existing limits of depth, SAGA may be deployed on the Bari – Durrës line, otherwise she will be active from Ancona”.