In February 2020 AS Tallink Grupp transported :
- +8% passengers
- +19.5% cargo units
- +12.6% cars
Last year, 3.5 million passengers chose to travel across Denmark with the fast ferries from Molslinjen.
Fast ferries between Jutland and Zealand in 2019:
- +8.3% passengers
- +5.3% cars (1,351,558)
- +1.6% departures (7,640)
For 2020, Molslinjen has planned to increase the number of sailings with 4.2%.
Climate and Environmental Investment in the Maritime Bridge between Kapellskär and Naantali
Ports of Stockholm has applied for an EU investment grant for a project that will meet customer demands and the needs of the future. It is also an environmental investment that would result in significantly lower emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollutants at the Port of Kapellskär.
- Caronte&Tourist in joint venture with Venezia City Sightseeing
- Alilauro, through the joint venture Alivenice created with Granturismo Venezia
- Bluferries
are the three group of companies which participated at the tender launched by the Municipality of Venice for a part of the maritime transport services in the lagoon.
This tender was launched some years ago and has been pending until now. A final decision is expected for April. The 9-year public contract is worth €178m and regards a 10% of the local public maritime transport services not managed by the Municipality-controlled ferry company Actv.
Submit Your Project for the ESPO Award 2020
The ESPO Award on Social Integration of Ports is entering its 12th edition. The theme of this year is “Enhancing the port-city relationship by encouraging innovators and local start-ups to be part of the port ecosystem”.
Project submissions have to reach the ESPO Secretariat by Friday 26 June 2020 at the latest. The application form and the terms of reference are available on the ESPO Website.
Current Price Development Oil and Gas
The following figures on energy and fuel prices give an overview of the price development for gas, oil, HFO and low Sulphur marine gas oil.
Kerkyra Seaways’ HERMES Arrived in Greece
On March 3, 2020 Kerkyra Seaways’s latest acquisition HERMES arrived in Piraeus, from Japan. She was purchased from the Japanese Nankai Awaji Ferry in October 2019 and delivered to the Greek ferry operator on January 24, 2020. HERMES is expected to be converted soon and she will be probably introduced on the Igoumenitsa-Corfu-Paxoi line.
On March 1, 2020 Attica Group’s ropax SUPERFAST XI arrived in Alexandroupolis. She is being used as a hotel for the police forces that are currently operating on the northern borders of Greece (Evros), in the turmoil with the refugees.
The large ferry will be at the Hellenic Government’s disposal until Saturday 7 March and then she will be probably replaced by EL. VENIZELOS and BLUE STAR 1. After that she will undergo repairs and dry docking while she is expected to return back in her Adriatic service in mid-April 2020.
Hold Your Breath! Calais got the Dragon
La Compagnie du Dragon started operations in Calais. Passengers are ferried across the Calais seafront, on the back of a mechanic monster dragon.
Thank you Julien Carpentier for the great capture.
Captain Leaves the Ship Last
Probably the most significant maritime photo of this week is this one. It shows the Captain of cruise vessel DIAMOND PRINCESS, leaving the ship, “as last one”, after the corona-crisis in Japan.
We all have this image of a captain staying until the last, when the ship is sinking, after having been hit by a monster storm. Nobody would ever have imagined this alternative scenario: a ship hit by something as small as a virus.
On 19 February 2020, BC Ferries held a naming ceremony for the first of its two Island Class Ferries at Victoria’s Point Hope Maritime. At the event, the names of the vessels – ISLAND DISCOVERY and ISLAND AURORA – were revealed for the first time. The two ferries, based on the Damen Road Ferry 8117E3 design and built at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania, will enter service mid-2020, serving the Powell River-Texada Island and Port McNeill-Albert Bay-Sointula routes respectively.
