On 26 January 2022, a tender concerns debt to the oil company Revoil. The former Japanese ferry (1976) was brought in Greece by Med Link Lines in 1998 for the Greece-Italy service. She also served for Maritime Way (2004-2006), Endeavor Lines (2006-2011) and Cretan Ferries (2012).
She was laid up at Perama when Cretan Ferries went out of business (2012). Sea Speed Lines purchased her at a tender in June 2018 for the Piraeus-Rethimnon line.
Another High-Speed Craft might be added to the Seajets’ fleet.
The ship was purchased from the Venezuelan Golden Sun Petroleum S.A. and renamed SPEED JET. She left the port of El Guamache (Isla Margarita) where she was laid up and currently is seen at the port of Tembladora (Trinidad & Tobago) flying the flag of Cyprus. SPEED JET was built in Australia (Austal) in 1996 and served for Scandlines (1996-2000), Ferrymed (2000-2002), SNAV (2002-2015) and Conferry (2015).
Her carrying capacity is for 156 cars and 650 passengers. She is a sister ship to Seajets’ POWER JET.
Regione Siciliana started the process for a new tender aimed at selecting the shipyard for building a new ropax ship (1+1) to be deployed on the Trapani – Pantelleria and Porto Empedocle – Lampedusa maritime links.
The ‘tender price’ is EUR 100 million, of which 4.5 million are a fixed value related to safety equipment.
Some details of the project:
50 years ago, a group of Breton farmers were faced with a challenge. They wanted to find a way to open up their region and transport their produce efficiently to England, sidestepping the established Eastern Channel ferry routes. The odds were against them, but they pushed for the building of a deep water port in Roscoff, and then obtained their first vessel, Kerisnel. Brittany Ferries was born…
MSC Group announced a new order for four ropax vessels to be built in China at Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) and set to be delivered from late 2024 onwards.
The four newbuilds will have a 1,500 passenger and 3,100 lane metre capacity, with 303 cabins. The shipbuilding contract takes origin from the order with Fratelli Onorato Armatori, announced in 2019, but the project and several technical details are different.
These four new units will be 218m long, with a beam of 29.6m and a maximum speed of 25 knots.
Instead of dual fuel, the new ferries will have scrubbers and are likely to be deployed on the routes to Sardinia or Sicily, and to the Balearic Islands.
Like 2020, 2021 was an exceptional year, with an unfavourable operating environment. At the same time, Viking Line experienced some positive events too. MARIELLA was sold in May, and in December the new climate-smart VIKING GLORY was delivered.
Traffic statistics 2021
Viking Line ended Q3,2021 with good liquidity. To further help implement Viking Line’s strategy for continued profitable growth in a post-pandemic environment, a preferential share issue for existing shareholders was carried out during the autumn, which was a success. There was great interest among shareholders, employees and the general public in the share issue, which was oversubscribed. Initially a total of 8,584,070 shares were subscribed for, which corresponds to about 132.5% of the offer shares. The final number of shares was 6,480,000. As a result, Viking Line generated proceeds of about EUR 51.8 million.
Full year 2021 figures
Comments from Paavo Nõgene, CEO of Tallink Grupp
DFDS and Godby Shipping have established a long-term co-operation with Godby Shipping buying the two storo sideport vessels LYSVIK SEAWAYS and LYSBRIS SEAWAYS and chartering them back to DFDS for a period of minimum three years.
Both vessels will continue in their present trade mostly serving Norske Skog forest product shipments out of Norway to UK and continental Europe.
Malta Shipbrokers International, the ship broker company founded a few years ago by Ettore Morace (today CEO of Trasmed GLE) and headed by his son Vittorio, welcomed Giuseppe Falsetti in its team.
Falsetti has a long professional experience in the Genoa-based broker house Banchero Costa, where he has always been focusing on chartering, sale & purchase and demolition of roro, ropax and container ships.
“Being part of a rapidly increasing company as Malta Shipbrokers International means having the opportunity to working also on new ship projects and new buildings thus expanding my competencies,” Falsetti said to Ferry Shipping News.
“In the mid to long term I think in the roro and ropax market we will see more and more consolidation. Therefore, working for a company in close cooperation with some key players (such as Grimaldi Group) is of paramount importance.”
NISSOS AIGINA (former MIDSLAND), owned by the Leventakis family, is expected to be introduced on the Piraeus-Aigina line in March 2022.
The ship has already undergone a major conversion and refit at Perama repair zone and will be able to carry 951 passengers and 90 cars.
NISSOS AIGINA was purchased in April 2021 from the Dutch Terschellinger Stoomboot Maatschappij (TSM) and served the Harlingen – Terschelling line since 1994.
Photo: Arxipelagos (Kostas Papadopoulos)
