Monday 12 July saw the first commercial departure of roro vessel MAXINE from Calais to Sheerness (London). This is a pure roro service, only taking unaccompanied freight.
Frequency: 1 departure per day in each direction, 7/7.
E-flexer COTE D’OPALE arrived in Calais on Saturday morning (10 July), after its long delivery journey from China.
She was greeted by the other DFDS ships, who were flagged overall.
Later during the day she tried the different berths in Calais’ old and new port.
On Monday she went to Dover, before heading to Dunkerque for a planned drydock session.
Wärtsilä will provide the main and auxiliary engines, as well as the fuel storage and supply system, for a new Italian ferry designed to operate on LNG.
The vessel is under construction at the Sefine shipyard in Turkey and has been ordered by Caronte & Tourist Isole Minori, based in Milazzo, Italy. The order with Wärtsilä was placed in the first quarter of 2021.
MOBY SPL said it had to cancel all ferry departures until 2 October, 2021, due to the extension of preventive measures for the spread of coronavirus infection in EU countries, in Russian Federation and the temporary restrictions of entry to the territory of these countries for tourism purposes.
October 2 was the last planned trip for this year.
Stena Rederi AB and Ventspils Port Companies have signed a Letter of Intent regarding the management of their port and logistics activities in Latvia. The intention is to explore the potential of Stena managing the terminals and railway companies on behalf of Ventspils Port Companies.
The NZK series are a serie of five fully electric ferries that will be operating in the North Sea Canal area (Amsterdam).
The ferries are intended to operate fully-electric and are charged by means of a 1.600 kW shore charging facility. Charging the batteries takes approximately 3 minutes and is automatically done while boarding and unboarding the passengers and vehicles.
Incat 045 CONDOR RAPIDE (1997) has been acquired by Trasmapi.
This high-speed vessel joins the recently acquired HSC FAIRWEATHER and HSC CHENEGA that have left the port of Ketchikan in Alaska this week.
Trasmapi operates a regular line for passengers and vehicles between the so-called Pitiusas (Ibiza and Formentera), in the Balearic Islands.
The company was about to add T&T EXPRESS (Incat 046), but that vessel sank during its delivery voyage, on 24 April 2021.
The Vincenzo Onorato controlled ferry company Moby and the subsidiary Tirrenia CIN received the green light from the Court of Milan to go ahead with the requested ‘concordato preventivo’ procedure.
The aim of the procedure is to reach a voluntary agreement with its business creditors, such as suppliers, banks, bond holders, Tirrenia in Amministrazione Straordinaria and others.
Total amount: roughly EUR 700 million.
Moby’s creditors will be called to express their vote on the proposed debt-restructuring plan on December 13th, while the same ‘meeting’ for Tirrenia Cin’s creditors will be one week later (December, 20th).
NLG – Navigazione Libera del Golfo’s managing director, Maurizio Aponte, confirmed to Ferry Shipping News that he high-speed ferry ISOLA DI CAPRAIA is being chartered from Tirrenia CIN and thus continued operating the maritime bridge between the port of Termoli and the Tremiti islands.
The same vessel had been deployed for many years assuring the maritime continuity in the Adriatic Sea. Up to last June 30th, the service was covered by Tirrenia CIN while NLG was granted the same subsidized link for the next three years, starting from July 1st.
ISOLA DI CAPRAIA is one of the five assets which will be put up for sale, according to Tirrenia CIN’s financial restructuring plan.
The news was already announced in FSN25, based on a stock exchange release from SadoKisen.
Now FRS Iberia confirmed the purchase of Incat 068 (2015). The vessel will be renamed as LEVANTE JET and will have the capacity to transport 692 passengers and 151 vehicles, or 330 lane metres of cargo.
After delivery to FRS in Japan, the vessel will be transferred to Spain and will arrive at the port of Algeciras in August, where she will be fitted out and painted in line with the recently updated FRS corporate identity.