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SAGA (former STENA SAGA) has left her lay-up berth in Uddevalla, Sweden, destination Gibraltar. The Stena RoRo vessel seems to have an (unknown) summer stint in the Med.
Godby has extended the contract with CMA CGM for RoRo MIMER until December 2023 with option for 2024. She is part of CMA CGM liner traffic in the Caribbean.
A new roro service from Marseille to Nouadhibou (Mauritania) and Dakar (Senegal) will start on July 1, 2021 (monthly).
Ship: MYROSE (operated by Glenhallen)
Desgagnés has sold its NORDIK EXPRESS [MarineTraffic] to Grimston World Inc. for a service between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
NORDIK EXPRESS was the oldest vessel of Relais Nordic Inc.
Relais Nordik provides maritime transport services for passengers and cargo along Quebec’s Middle and Lower North Shore as well as Anticosti Island.
Baleària’s fast ferry AVEMAR DOS resumed its usual route between Ceuta and Algeciras after the remotorization work that has been carried out in recent months. The ship now has 8% more fuel-efficient engines (new version of MTU 1163 M84). This is the second remotorization that has been carried out on this ship in six years.
Italian shipowners’ association Assarmatori, together with the association of the small municipalities located on the islands, asked the Italian government to remove the 50% passenger capacity.
It limits tourism and negatively impacts the revenues of the companies involved in the business. They argue that air and rail transport modes are not limited with the same conditions.
They also underline that all the safety protocols aimed at reducing the spreading of Covid-19 would remain, before embarking and during the journey at sea.
The procurement of a new ferry to help support the community and economy on Islay is officially underway, says Transport Scotland.
The first stage of the tender process will assess if interested shipyards meet the technical and financial criteria to take on the project.
The Invitation To Tender is expected to be issued later this summer with a view to awarding the contract, with an estimated value of around £50m, in March 2022.
Tersan signed a contract with Norway’s Fjord1 ASA for the construction of two environmentally friendly vehicle and passenger ferries.
- To be delivered in Q2, 2023
- Designed by HAV Design firm
- Length 84 metres / 248 people including crew / 80 cars / 6 trucks.
- Fast charging of batteries during port call
- Able to operate in all-electric mode, hybrid mode and diesel-electric mode
- Routes: Stranda – Liabygda (NB1113) and Eidsdal – Linge (NB1114)
- NB1113 and NB1114 will be the 8th and 9th ferry that Tersan will build for Fjord1
According to the Hellenic Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, from June 10, 2021, passengers wishing to travel by ferry will be able to make their health statement digitally, in order to avoid overcrowding in the ports and make the embarkation process faster.
- The digital health statement can be found on the official website of the Ministry of Shipping.
- Citizens who have been vaccinated do not need to have a rapid test or self-test but carry their vaccination certificate.
- The capacity of ferries with cabins remains at 85% and at 80% for those without cabins.
Summer season 2021 has already opened for the Hellenic High-Speed Crafts. The new entries are:
Minoan Lines HSC SANTORINI PALACE will be introduced on the Heraklion-Santorini-Naxos-Paros-Mykonos-Syros-Piraeus line on June 12, 2021. The ship will depart every morning at 9:00 except Wednesdays.
Hellenic Seaways’ HSC FLYING CAT 3 will be introduced on the Rafina-Tinos-Mykonos-Naxos (and vice versa) line on June 18, 2021. The ship will depart every morning at 7:45.
Hellenic Seaways’ HSC HIGHSPEED 4 will be introduced on the Piraeus-Paros-Naxos-Koufonisi-Katapola line on July 2, 2021. The upgraded ship will depart every morning at 9:30 except Wednesdays.
The Finnish Shipowners Association wrote that Shipping companies will accept:
- a certificate of a negative COVID-19 test for passengers coming to Finland as of Tuesday, 8th June 2021.
- a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine certificate.
- The vaccine must be taken at least 21 days before the trip.
- Scottish-led HySeas III project aims to build Europe’s first ferry powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
- The contract has been awarded to Aqualisbraemar LOC Group by Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL), one of the partners in the EU-funded HySeas III programme.
- The plan is to demonstrate that hydrogen fuel cells can be successfully integrated with a marine hybrid electric drive system, along with the hydrogen storage and bunkering arrangements.
- Fuel cells of this type are currently used in road transport and can be found in hundreds of hydrogen-fuelled buses across Europe.
- The HySeas III project will develop, construct, test and validate data in a full-sized drive train, the group of components that make up a motor vehicle, on land.
- If successful, it will pave the way for the first seagoing vessel that uses this fuel technology.
- As from June 15, La Méridionale will offer 3 weekly departures between Marseille and Tanger Med.
- Ships: GIROLATA and PELAGOS
- Sailing each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from each port
