Tom Pippingsköld is the new President and CEO.
Thomas Doepel is new Vice President and Deputy CEO.
Current President and CEO, Emanuele Grimaldi, will continue in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Following P&O Ferries’ decision to sack 800 workers, the UK government is introducing pay protection reforms requiring ferry operators who regularly call at UK ports to pay their workers the equivalent of the UK national minimum wage.
Announced in the Queen’s speech, the government will implement the changes in the next parliamentary session and will consult closely with the ports and maritime sector on the new laws.
The new legislation will ban ferries that don’t pay their workers the equivalent to minimum wage from docking at UK ports.
Port of Boulogne Calais has published an expression of interest for users of the ferry berth and accompanying buildings in Boulogne. [document on LinkedIn, in French, deadline 20 May]
By coincidence (?) BioFerries expressed last week its dream to start a new ferry service with a new InCat in 2024. Curt Stavis is the man behind BioFerries. He was the founder of Speedferries, more than 10 years ago.
Curt Stavis started a Facebook Group (click on picture below to join).
As of mid-June, ropax MOBY ZAZA will be chartered to Baleària for the summer season.
Some sources revealed to Ferry Shipping News that the 1982-built ferry is expected to be deployed on the route between Almeria and Morocco until next September.
The former OLAU BRITANNIA has been inactive since last autumn in Livorno and was used before as a quarantine hotel.
Rumour: Baleària has been authorised to operate a new link connecting Genoa, Sète, Barcelona and Tanger Med, thus competing with Grandi Navi Veloci.
Ferry MALANGEN (Torghatten Nord AS ) will be rebuilt at the Fosen Yard
Haf Power Solutions AS will supply the hybrid system.
The suppliers to the hybrid system include Corvus Energy (battery packs), The Switch (frequency converters), ACEL (switchboard) and Høglund Marine Automation.
DFDS acquires the German rail operator company primeRail.
The acquisition strengthens DFDS’ rail offerings and is “a testament to DFDS’ ambition to find sustainable ways to continue providing reliable and valuable services.”
The acquisition also marks the launch of a new Rail business area in DFDS.
On April 17, 2022 Aegean Cargo Management’s roro AYSHE left Greece, following a 2-year laid up at Perama.
The large Japanese-built vessel is the fastest roro in the world (30 knots) and was chartered to the Turkish Ecol from 2014 to 2019 for service on the Turkey – France (Sète) line.
In May 2019, the charter was ended and the ship returned to Greece and offered for sale. She remained at Perama repair zone until April 2022, where she was transferred to Oristars Shipping Co Ltd.
The ship flew the flag of Panama and was sent to China for service between China and Japan. The vessel is currently at the port of Longyan awaiting refit and repairs.
On April 12, 2022, Nel Lines’ flagship THEOFILOS (ex NILS HOLGERSSON, ABEL TASMAN, POLLUX) left her anchorage to be scrapped in Aliaga (Turkey).
She was laid up at the port of Piraeus since Nel Lines’ collapse (2013).
Three attempts were made to sell her. At the second attempt in October 2019, she was sold to Anen Lines, which saved her from the scrapyard at the last minute.
The ship had a very interesting career:
1975 Built in Germany for TT-Line as the NILS HOLGERSSON, Travemünde-Trelleborg.
1985 ABEL TASMAN, Transport Tasmania (TT-Line) Melbourne-Devonport.
1994 POLLUX, Ventouris Ferries
1995 THEOFILOS, Nel Lines, Piraeus-Chios-Lesvos-Thessaloniki
Photo: voyagair.shipspotting (Christos Chatzaras)
We are happy to present a new module – Ship Position complementing our offer for IPTV solutions for the maritime industry. Now you can monitor the current position of the vessel to be in control of your movement.
Nervon Ship Position module will mainly benefit guests on small sea ships and river cruises. The solution can be tailored and adjusted to existing infrastructure without major investment.
This service could be delivered to any vessel in any part of the world. Minimum Internet connection is required to capture the data and present vessel position data in the format as a separate channel.
Other exciting features are:
• Visualization of the vessel movements on a digital map
• The behaviour of the ship during the route
• Insights on the arrival and departure time of vessels
• Information about all nearby cities during the voyage
• Speed and draught graphic
• Route prediction
The first ship position feature was recently implemented on request for Overseas Adventure Travel (O.A.T.), the leader in a small ship cruising, offering their guests a tailored onboard experience.
The feature is now implemented on their small ships Arethusa, Artemis, and Athena cruising in the Aegean and the Adriatic seas. Now O.A.T. travellers on these small ships can enjoy the real-time updates of vessel position data, ship details, voyage information, arrival times, and even more. All the ships in their fleet can navigate narrow passageways and off-the-beaten-path ports, so no matter where travellers choose to travel with O.A.T., they can expect to feel fully immersed.
Know where you are in the world. Let there be content at every point of your journey!
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected the application for a exemption in order to insure HAVILA CAPELLA.
Earlier this Ministry had granted Havila Kystruten a exemption from the (Russian) sanctions regulations to operate HAVILA CAPELLA for 6 months.
The exemption did not entail any right to insure the ship and on Monday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the shipping company’s application to take out insurance on the grounds that being able to take out insurance in itself would mean that a property is made available to the registered owner.
