The Åland Landskapsregeringen (Provincial Government) has decided to buy FEDJEFJORD (2001) from Norled, for EUR 3.6 million.
It is planned to be put into operation on the Åva-Osnäs line when the ferry berth in Åva is ready for traffic during the first half of 2023.
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana has decided to order a new ferry. The construction has been awarded to the Spanish shipyard Hijos de J. Barreras.
The new RFI ferry will be hybrid-powered and will have zero emission in port.
The ferry will be used to transport passengers, railway carriages and wagons, dangerous goods and rail tankers in the Strait of Messina, and railway wagons for the Sicily-Sardinia connection .
It’s the third unit of a series of sister ships previously built in Italy by Nuovi Cantieri Apuania (MESSINA, 2013, photo) and by San Giorgio del Porto and T-Mariotti (IGINIA, 2021)
LOA 150m |Gross Tonnage 2,500 | 18 knots speed
Contract price is EUR 74 million of which 9 millions is financed by the Italian EU Next Gen program.
Delivery expected in 2024.
At the end of September, the CDC ‘Collectivité de Corse’ has been ordered by the Council of State to pay EUR 86.3 million to Corsica Ferries, in compensation for the damage linked to the illegal subsidies of its former competitor SNCM, between 2007 and 2013.
CDC refused to pay and wanted the French State to take its responsibilities.
This now happened: the French Government decided on Friday 10 December 2021 to support the CDC with EUR 50 million.
The sum of now almost 90 million (with the interests) represents one third of the annual budget of the island.
The financial injection from the State will be given through the PTIC (‘Plan de transformation et d’investissement pour la Corse’), an investment programme of 500 million over 5 years.
It means the State doesn’t pay 50 million for the fine. It pays this amount to help Corsica to invest. If Corsica would have to pay the fine, it would have less money to invest. (…)
This system has two advantages:
(Source: FR3, in French)
Last week, Levante Ferries’ executives travelled to Turkey to meet with executives of the UKAT as well as the Transporters and International Carriers Association and speed up the procedures for the restart of the Thessaloniki-Smyrna line that slowed down due to the pandemic.
Both sides discussed about the line, while relevant trade agreements were concluded. The new connection will start next April with the fully renovated ship SMYRNA.
However, the company plans to launch a second ship with a similar capacity in order to meet with the needs of the line. Turkish representatives estimate that the new line will attract at least 1,000 vehicles per month fro
Source: Christos Chatzaras
According to a press release (in Greek) by the Deputy Ministry of Shipping of Cyprus, Israel is interested in a possible extension of Cyprus-Greece ferry link. Both countries shared the view that the possibility of extending the Cyprus-Greece maritime connection with Israel will:
CLdN Cargo has signed an exclusive commercial agency agreement with Macama srl to represent the CLdN Cargo companies in the Italian market. The cooperation has started the 1st of December 2021.
Color Line has decided to take COLOR VIKING temporarily out of operation on the Sandefjord-Strømstad route on Monday 13 December. This is due to a significant decrease in the number of passengers after the government introduced new national corona measures and requested limited social contact.
The decision entails, in this round, notification of redundancy to just under 100 employees.
On December 10th, GNV ‘s TENACIA and MAJESTIC joined GNV BRIDGE and GNV SEALAND on the ferry routes between Barcelona & Valencia, and the Balearic islands of Palam, Ibiza and Menorca.
GNV started the routes last summer.
ATG shipyard became a 100% subsidiary of French Piriou Group.
ATG shipyard is located in Giurgiu, 60 km south of Bucarest-Romania.
Firstly exclusively dedicated to building vessels for inland waterway shipping, ATG gradually broadened its scope in building hulls and vessels for the offshore cargo transport, fishing industries, etc.
The shipyard of Giurgiu is located on 15 Ha of land and fitted with 30,000 m2 of workshops. Four 110m assembly halls communicate via a transfer area with a 110m and 3,000t lifting capacity synchrolift. This synchrolift overlooks a well-protected dock that communicates with the Danube.
The shipyard outfit quay is nearly 250m long.
Piriou builds ferries as well: see some examples.
As from January 2022, the Tunisian ferry company CTN and French Corsica Linea will stop selling each other’s tickets.
