A ferry company that has 19 million passengers annually, ordered 10 new fully electric ferries.
Gondan Shipyard has been awarded the contract by Transtejo Soflusa, the Portuguese company that links Lisbon with the other side of the river Tagus.
Each ferry can carry 540 passengers.
The first four units will cross the Tagus in 2022. Four in 2023. Two in 2024.
Works on Scandlines’ biggest competitor can start.
The longest combined road and rail tunnel in the world, with two double-lane motorways and two electrified rail tracks, will link Germany and Denmark under the Fehmarn Belt.
The 18km long tunnel is due for 2029.
At the end of September, the Scandlines Group’s lawsuit was heard before the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig. On 3 November the court confirmed the planning approval decision as legal.
Scandlines said it is particularly pleased that the court has taken the safety of the ships into account and that the barges used to bring excavated material to Denmark have to give way to the Scandlines ferries in order not to disturb the operations.
Scandlines is not pleased with the planned road works, which will downgrade the current connection. This gives a competitive advantage to the tunnel. “It cannot be that Femern A/S can design worse access to our ferry terminal, ”says Søren Poulsgaard Jensen. Further steps will be taken.
AS Tallink Grupp Statistics for October 2020
All five companies operating passenger transport services in the Gulf of Naples decided to close down or reduce the sailings offered to and from the surrounding islands (such as Capri, Ischia, etc.).
Three labour unions (Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl e Uiltrasporti) publicly protested against the ferry companies Alilauro, Snav, Medmar, Navigazione Libera del Golfo e Gestour and complaining that less sailings have a direct impact on the workforce and on the social distance needed for the people onboard during the current pandemic emergency.
The ferry companies from their side decided to reduce the number of ships deployed and the sailings offered to and from Naples just because, due to the new procedure and limits introduced by the local authorities, the number of passengers sharply decreased.
Next summer, Blu Navy will add a second vessel on the Piombino – Portoferraio link, where the Italian ferry company has just obtained from the Tuscan port authority further three slots (from five to eight).
Blu Navy will operate the short-sea link also during the winter season.
Gianluca Morace, CEO of Blu Navy, told Ferry Shipping News that “the second ship will enter service next June and will be similar to the ro-pax ACCIARELLO.” (currently deployed by the company in the route linking the Elba island to Italy mainland).
With intra-European traffic accounting for 76% of its business, the Port of Zeebrugge knows the benefits of a Europe without internal borders perhaps better than any other. But then came Brexit…
The RoRo terminal at Stockholm Norvik Port has two new berths for the largest ferries and roro ships.
One of the quay-berths has a length of 280 metres and a depth of 10.5 metres. The other quay-berth has a length of 230 metres and a depth of 10 metres.
These are the final two of a total of nine ramps that have been delivered to Ports of Stockholm in recent years.
Stena Line will start to operate from Norvik as from 9 November. (route Nynashamn – Ventspils)
Eventually, nine investors have expressed interest for the acquisition of the 67% of the Igoumenitsa Port Authority (OLIG). The specific port has high profitability and respectable infrastructure and the future candidate will also take over pitches, buildings and facilities that are within the port zone and managed by OLIG as well as the fishing shelters of Sagiada and Plataria, and the yacht marina at Sivota. The 9 candidates that expressed interest in the port of Igoumenitsa are the following:
Methanol Can Be the Climate-Neutral Marine Fuel of the Future
The Fastwater project is about the use of methanol as fuel for existing ships and newbuildings.
The problems that Fastwater wants to solve are:
The project has received five million euros from the EU to develop the new technology.
Fastwater is a project which unites universities (Lund, Ghent), engine manufacturer Anglo Belgian Corporation, shipyard Meyer Werft, Lloyds Register etc… A list with all Fastwater partners can be found here.
STENA GERMANICA was converted to be capable of running on methanol fuel in 2015.
Fastwater says a methanol-powered pilot boat will be launched in 2022.
Lack of Expertise, Poor Negotiating at Root of Quebec Ferry Fiasco, Auditor General Finds
“STQ (Société des traversiers du Québec)’s procurement of ropax F.-A.-GAUTHIER was doomed from the start because of a lack of in-house expertise and the lack of experience at the negotiating table,” says a “Report of the Auditor General of Québec to the National Assembly for 2020-2021, October 2020”
Report of the Auditor General of Québec to the National Assembly: Full Report in French
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Report of the Auditor General of Québec to the National Assembly: Summary in English
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